Sentences with phrase «only global pact»
Developing nations have no mandatory limits under the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 treaty that remains the only global pact limiting global warming pollution.
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The move, described by two people familiar with the deliberations, would put the U.S. in the company of just Syria and Nicaragua as the only countries not part of the global carbon - cutting pact signed in December 2015.
The chosen scenario assumes Trump's actions could result in the United States only achieving half of its pledged reduction through 2030 under the Paris Agreement on climate change, the worldwide but voluntary pact aiming to avoid dangerous global warming that entered into force on Nov. 4.
«Environment ministers of the European Union — responsible for only 11 % of global carbon emissions — said they would commit to a new phase of the Kyoto climate change pact, on the condition that nations blamed for the rest join up too.