"Multilateral action" refers to a collective effort or collaboration involving multiple parties or countries to address a particular issue, solve a problem, or achieve a common goal. It emphasizes the idea of working together and pooling resources, expertise, and ideas from various entities on a global scale.
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With the presidencies of G8 and the EU in 2005, the UK will be uniquely positioned to leverage support for
multilateral action on climate change just when the next stage of negotiations is set to begin.
«The US administration, which continuously obstructed the fight against climate change, did not manage to prevent world leaders here from pledging that they will
take multilateral action,» he added.
AM: [As we saw in Paris],
multilateral action on HFCs now has the support of an overwhelming majority of nations and this will be the year to translate that majority support into a meaningful agreement.
«The prime minister raised our deep concern at the president's forthcoming announcement on steel and aluminium tariffs, noting that
multilateral action was the only way to resolve the problem of global overcapacity in all parties» interests,» said Downing Street.