Sentences with phrase «international treaty aimed»

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.

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These names are viewed as non-tariff barriers, which matter because they are the last significant friction in international trade, which the Transatlantic Investment Partnership treaty aims to lower.

The trio's efforts should be coupled with that of Europe's recently signed anti-match-fixing treaty, which aims to facilitate the exchange of information on an international level between public authorities, sports organizations and sports betting operators.

350 ppm, while merely a number, represents humanity's potential capacity to solve the most pressing problem it has faced; it also represents a target for international negotiators to aim for in forging an effective global warming treaty.

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed in 2001 and effective from May 2004, that aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

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.

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.

It also presents its major threats and the Convention on Biological Diversity, an international legally - binding treaty which aims to conserve biodiversity and promote its sustainable use and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources.

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.

The Interacademy Panel on International Issues, a body composed of national science academies from around the world, released a statement that aims to raise the profile of ocean acidification among the treaty negotiators.

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.

In the words of the Court, that procedure «has the aim of forestalling complications which would result from legal disputes concerning the compatibility with the Treaties of international agreements binding upon the European Union».

Actually the necessary treaty already exists (Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, among others) but the US hasn't signed it.

The Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction («the child abduction Hague Convention») is a treaty which aims to protect children from the harmful effects of international wrongful International Child Abduction («the child abduction Hague Convention») is a treaty which aims to protect children from the harmful effects of international wrongful international wrongful removal or...