Sentences with phrase «standing under that treaty»

Not exact matches

Under the treaty, the word «adaptation» is restricted to adaptation to adverse effects of warming from human - generated greenhouse gases (and to economic harm in, for example, places like Saudi Arabia that pump oil; they'll be standing in line for some of the cash).

The current pipeline path is being bitterly, and appropriately, opposed by the Standing Rock Sioux and a growing array of allies for threatening sacred sites and the environment in lands and waters that were never ceded under treaties.

Certainly, China's declarations out of the China - U.S. presidential summit last week on «full transparency» and a resolve to «stand by these actions» push them in that direction (see previous post «Announcements of U.S. - China Cooperation Create a Path to Copenhagen Success «-RRB- are encouraging, but those declarations are not the same as promises for MRV under a legal treaty.

Generally speaking, treaty obligations stand on equal footing under international law.