Sentences with phrase «sign international treaties»

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.

Two weeks ago, more than 175 nations signed the Paris Agreement, making it the most - signed international treaty in a single day.

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 States has refused to sign an international treaty to reduce greenhouse gases because it does not include similar commitments from developing countries.

61 % supported the US signing an international treaty requiring the nation to cut CO2 emissions by 90 % by 2050.

In this context, The UAE has signed all international treaties on protecting the rights of women.

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What's more, the international trend is toward signing bilateral investment treaties and other measures designed to stimulate investment.

By using the word bilateral ¯ i.e., between two entities ¯ Carroll is able to avoid mentioning that the first international treaty with Hitler's government was not the concordat, signed on July 20, 1933, but the Four - Power Pact (involving Germany, France, England, and Italy), which preceded it by a full month (June 7).

Putting aside, for the moment, that all nations capable of reaching either the Moon or Mars have signed and ratified a treaty recognizing those areas as international territory, America is the only country to have ever placed people on a body outside the Earth, and we haven't even bothered doing it in over 40 years.

This means that by signing a treaty which accepts the current program, the international community is conceivably weakening future non-proliferation efforts.

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

Iran did sign the treaty and got the benefits from it - so Iran trying to get a nuclear weapon or not cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency to prove otherwise is a breach of the treaty.

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.

, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...

The international treaty that governs the continent was signed in 1959, essentially eliminating those nationalistic claims, but of course no one really took them off their books and as a result all those countries still regard those pie slices as theirs in case the treaties ever fall apart.

Now, more than a hundred nations have signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury, an international treaty to reduce mercury emission levels through measures such as banning new mercury mines.

In 2005 the countries in which Barnoya and Borzekowski conducted their research joined 168 nations in signing onto an international treaty banning aggressive tobacco advertising — the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

To facilitate access for their respective communities to various instruments, international projects and organizations will therefore inevitably have to sign reciprocity agreements, memoranda of understanding, or even treaties.

In 1998, as the United States was considering signing the international Kyoto Protocol treaty to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, Southern was part of an initiative called the Global Science Communications Team that brought together industry, public relations and think tank leaders to devise a plan to confuse the public about the state of climate science.

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).

As the Avengers and their newfound allies take sides on the issue of whether to sign a treaty agreeing to international oversight or continue with their current strategy of world - saving, no matter the cost, it's fascinating to see who falls where.

Countries that have signed onto international treaties such as the 1951 Refugee Convention or the Convention on the Rights of the Child have a legal obligation to provide education for children in their countries regardless of nationality or legal status, which should also be reflected in their national laws.

The Marrakesh Treaty is an international copyright treaty that was adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization and signed by the U.S. in October 2013.

Although there is no such thing as an international copyright, many countries have signed treaties that provide reciprocal recognition of copyrights.

Presidential signing statements, rejection of oversight, refusals to testify, unequal application of law for the rich and white, abuse of Social Security, road and other trust funds, abuse of prisoners in violation of international treaties, refusal to reveal special industry consultants to the president, invasion of privacy in defiance of law and the Constitution as generally understood, expansion of U.S. presence abroad without informing Congress, a secret intelligence establishment big enough to field armies yet unable to provide reliable intelligence.

In very general terms, this is because the agreement does not legally bind the US to any new commitments that it does not already perform under the UNFCCC (an international climate treaty signed and ratified by the US in 1992), such as fulfilling requirements to monitor and report on GHG emissions.

The UNFCCC treaty, which the United States has signed, serves as the foundation of international political efforts to combat global warming.

Exercising its constitutional authority to advise the President on treaties, the Senate resolved that the U.S. should not sign any international agreement to set mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions that: (1) did not also set emissions limits on developing countries; and (2) that «would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States.»

Sorry, I will be more forthcoming: the effect of implementing the currently signed Kyoto treaty will be to get the international community united and focused on an urgent problem.

International conference produces Kyoto Protocol, setting targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if enough nations sign onto a 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.

From the Greens, «Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Wednesday that Britain would cut emissions 34 per cent below 1990 by 2020, regardless of whether a new international climate treaty was signed this year.

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.

We also monitor compliance and implementation of New Zealand's international obligations in accordance with the requirements of the international conventions New Zealand has signed, and have prepared shadow reports for relevant United Nations treaty bodies to be considered alongside official reports.

International conference produces Kyoto Protocol, setting targets for industrialized nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if enough nations sign onto a treaty (rejected by US Senate in advance).

There were many recommendations made to Canada about signing on to a fairly long list of international human rights treaties, reflective of the fact that Canada's ratification rate has slowed to an imperceptible crawl in recent years.

There has been growing pressure on Russia to sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, but it is now reported that the European Commission is giving France the right to start negotiations with Russia on a bilateral treaty on international chiInternational Child Abduction, but it is now reported that the European Commission is giving France the right to start negotiations with Russia on a bilateral treaty on international chiinternational child abduction.

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.

In fact, article 425 of AML, in its first clause, establishes that international arbitration is regulated by treaties, conventions and protocols signed and ratified by the Ecuadorian State.

On November 12th, 1913 the first International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, more commonly known as SOLAS, was signed, which through revisions in 1929, 1948, 1960, 1974 and 1980, exists to this day as the most significant treaty regulating safety in ocean going vessels and thus ensuring that whether they are near or far, hearts will go on for both kings of the world and paupers alike whilst they are at sea.

The UAE enters into and signs a number of international agreements and treaties each year with other countries on varying subjects including extradition.

While two international treaties exist to deal with these issues, the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction and the 1996 Hague Convention on Parental Responsibility and Protection of Children, Canada has never signed the latter and doesn't recognize Guatemala's accession to the former.

It worked to sucessfully convince the government of Japan to sign the 1997 treaty banning antipersonnel landmines as a member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1997 Nobel Peace Prizeco - laureate with Ms. Jody Williams.

The American Bar Association notes that any country that signed the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction treaty will immediately return an abducted child to the United States if his parent removed him from the United States without the court's permission.