A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and
multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.
Not exact matches
In addition to the lack of coordination
among the bilateral and
multilateral dialogues and to the problem of achieving, within the Churches, a binding reception of the results of dialogue, Raiser mentions one reason in particular that makes this reception of the results of dialogue difficult: «The paths thus far traveled «in the ecumenical movement have taken the separated Churches as their starting point and sought to overcome the division by convergence and formal
agreement.»
Apparently, though, it would take another bilateral meeting between Premier Wen and President Obama, and a
multilateral meeting
among Obama, Wen, Lula (Brazil), Singh (India) and Zuman (South Africa) to hash out the final
agreement on transparency.
An example of the third architecture, decentralized approaches and coordinated national policies, would be linkage
among domestic cap - and - trade systems, driven not through a
multilateral agreement but largely by bilateral arrangements.
A general theme of the videoconference echoed the need for organizations to work together with synergies
among international satellite programs and the importance of
multilateral agreements in addressing climate monitoring.