Sentences with phrase «international treaties at»

Ghana has signed a number of international treaties at the world and African levels that obligate it to respect certain human rights.

In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.

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These considerations are made even more relevant because of present United States commitments to international treaties on human rights, which could conceivably, at some time, put United States positive laws relating to abortion and the judges who implement them at variance with and in violation of a future international consensus on that issue.»

The United Nations Human Rights Council is meeting at the moment (10 — 27 June) and an international civil society campaign is calling for it to set up a Working Group to draft this treaty.

At this session some countries will be calling for the UN to begin developing an international treaty on business and human rights.

International courts, treaties, and similar mechanisms are used because it's recognized that going to war at every little disagreement is counter-productive, not because they trump a nations right to decide what to do.

Every nation is technically exempt from international law as there is no world government which has ultimate sovereignty over the nations; international laws are treaties, and at the end of the day the nations are sovereign and can withdraw or ignore them at will.

Added to these over-arching responsibilities are individual powers to operate the Royal Prerogative (as the de facto chair of the Privy Council)- to declare war (including single - handedly authorising the launch of a nuclear strike), to sign international treaties and to represent the UK at the highest level in international and European negotiations.

While all the campaigns noted above were developed or at least supported by most European states, the nuclear ban - treaty movement marks the first time an instrument of international humanitarian law is forced into existence against a kicking and screaming European core.

At the very least, he says, the Kyoto treaty should be modified to allow countries to fulfill their obligations through joining an international carbon tax process.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC) is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.

In recent decades, however, seed conservation and sharing efforts have been hampered at times by concerns about biopiracy, as nations have negotiated numerous international treaties and agreements that regulate the collection, movement, and equitable use of seeds and other genetic resources.

But with Obama in office, there's at least the faint glimmer of possibility for an international treaty.

-- The term «most vulnerable developing countries» means, as determined by the Administrator of USAID, developing countries that are at risk of substantial adverse impacts of climate change and have limited capacity to respond to such impacts, considering the approaches included in any international treaties and agreements.

«His threat to rip up existing treaties and impose new tariffs — even if there are limits to what can actually be accomplished under executive authority — would disrupt global supply chains, jeopardizing the integrated international trade system that has been the key foundation of decades of global growth and prosperity,» warned Stephen Rogers, an investment strategist at Investors Group, in a white paper released before Americans cast their ballots.

Born into a family of potters in Kyoto, Kozan moved at age 28 to the treaty port of Yokohama, a former fishing village that by 1870 was a burgeoning center for international trade.

The ethical dimensions of global warming, and the deep divisions between rich and poor, are likely to shape discussions next month at the next round of international climate - treaty talks in Indonesia.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

They have been criticized by environmentalists as an end run around the international climate talks aimed at drafting a new treaty on climate by the end of 2009.

At that time, there was also a newly perceived global atmospheric threat — the damage to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other synthetic compounds — and an international solution in a treaty that banned the chemicals.

That approach contrasts with the strategy tried, in vain, under two decades of international negotiations aimed at building a comprehensive and binding treaty, and, in the United States, a lost decade aimed at passing a «comprehensive» climate bill.

Moreover, United Nations climate alarmists are trying to devise a new treaty to regulate energy use at the international level.

President Obama also has the power under the Clean Air Act to implement an executive agreement at the international level, rendering Senate approval of a climate treaty unnecessary.

«I suspect that it simply wants to manufacture doubt about the temperature records to create a distraction while countries are negotiating a new international treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions, to be agreed at a summit in Paris at the end of this year.»

The key is to convince many countries to simultaneously act to reduce their emissions, which is the purpose of international treaties and conferences like at Kyoto and Copenhagen.

Negotiations are expected to conclude by Saturday, and the draft agreement will continue to evolve until it's offered up as an international treaty in December 2015, when world leaders are expected to gather in Paris in an attempt at a global climate deal.

The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), formalized at a conference in Rio de Janeiro, was in effect a treaty to create treaties, an effort to create an international regime that would supposedly deal with the threat of Global Warming.

A proposal for bringing international environmental law under one legally binding treaty at the United Nations will be up for a preliminary vote later this week at the U.N. General Assembly.

This was where the movement turned after two devastating failures: the fruitless effort for an international climate treaty at Copenhagen in 2009, and the death, shortly afterward, of cap - and - trade legislation in the U.S. Senate, despite enormous investments by mainstream environmental groups in these causes.

Dateline 3 February 2015 — The Top UN Climate Change Official is optimistic that a new international treaty will be adopted at Paris Climate Change conference at the end of the year.

Back in 1992 — well before science had anything conclusive to say about humanity's impact on the climate — the United Nations persuaded countries to sign an international treaty aimed at saving the planet from «dangerous» human - emitted greenhouse gases.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC) is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to 14, 1992.

Durban, South Africa — After nearly two weeks of stalled progress by the United States at the international climate talks, U.S. youth spoke out for a real, science - based climate treaty.

«We also strongly support your opposition to signing new international environmental treaties or creating new international environmental organizations at the Johannesburg Summit,» the letter added.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty produced at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Although climate science in the late 90s was certainly strong enough — or at least concerning enough — to negotiate an international treaty, it is hard to deny that the scientific understanding of the climate crisis has improved considerably over the past two decades.

Since its foundation it has reported regularly on the state of climate change, with its 1990 report inspiring the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the first international treaty that aimed to reduce global warming, which was signed at the so - called Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

So talks aimed at ramping up international action to cut carbon emissions and speed up progress on the treaty have begun in the German city of Bonn, attended by representatives of 193 governments.

The great leader of the Copendeniers, US Senator James Inhofe (R - OK), showed up on the Danish island of Copenhagen for a fly - by press event here at the international climate treaty.

Since diplomats can not possibly produce a useful treaty for the December meeting in the remaining twelve weeks, negotiations should focus on a small number of realistic goals, and leave the rest for later, says David Victor, an expert on international relations at the University of California in San Diego.

10 On the other hand, if Korea complied with the treaty and had a domestic CO2 price of at least $ 25 per ton of CO2, its trade would be treated as normal international commerce with no border tax adjustments.

The Kyoto Protocol did pass its own thresholds to come into force as an international agreement (> = 55 countries totaling at least 55 % of emissions), but it was vitiated by the refusal of the U.S. Senate to ratify the treaty, highlighted in the July 1997 Byrd - Hagen Resolution: http://www.nationalcenter.org/KyotoSenate.html

This plays quite well into the rich country strategy of stalling their own ambition (both in terms of reducing their emissions and in terms of financing adaptation and mitigation in developing countries) and worsening the climate crisis, while at the same time setting up an international treaty to lock in China et al to reduce emissions.

(Asylum seekers who turn themselves in at a point of entry and request asylum, the procedure outlined by international treaty, break no laws.)

Rather, the Court drew inspiration from international treaties and national constitutions, whilst at the same time maintaining the autonomy of the EU rights standard.

One of our suggestions was that looking at the enforcement of and compliance with decisions rendered under international investment treaties could prove a useful means of measuring progress on the rule of law, since the way countries deal with their disputes provides evidence of accountability.

This puts the Charter at the apex of all international treaties, a feat which is recognized also in the Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties (Art. 30 (1) VCLT); Art. 30 (6) treaties, a feat which is recognized also in the Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties (Art. 30 (1) VCLT); Art. 30 (6) Treaties (Art. 30 (1) VCLT); Art. 30 (6) VCLTIO).

Assuming for the moment that there may be justification for protection against signal theft at the international level, the WIPO treaties have, over the years, devolved from an attempt to address that narrow issue into a free for all that could grant broadcasters a sweeping set of rights.

The Global treaties are treaties that are focussed on issues at the international plane.