Sentences with phrase «without global commitment»

Whatever the US does would be nothing without a global commitment to reduce emissions.

Jim D: «Whatever the US does would be nothing without a global commitment to reduce emissions.

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However, Canada's market share in the global clean tech industry has fallen 12 per cent in the last decade, and will continue to contract without a solid, long - term commitment to growing the industry, said institute co-chair Stewart Elgie, a professor of law and economics at the University of Ottawa.

Given recent economic developments (which suggest there will be no surplus this year) and global uncertainties, together with a commitment by all three major political parties to balanced budgets and no tax increases (other than the NDP), it would be fiscally imprudent for any political party to make new major election «promises» in the coming months without indicating how they would be financed.

We can not now talk meaningfully about world order without discussing whether this global commitment to economism is to be accepted.

We have not lost our position as a global leader in science and technology innovation, but even the best policies will not lead to continued advancements and breakthroughs without financial commitments to the fields of science and technology from our Federal and state governments.

And the U.N.'s Clean Development Mechanism market itself may come to an end in 2013 — bringing to a close the $ 20.6 billion trade — without a new set of commitments by the global community on how to extend the Kyoto Protocol's provisions, according to the U.N.

Anna Roggenbuck, Policy Officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, said: «With the decision to finance TANAP, the EIB has shown its disregard to Europe's commitments to climate change mitigation.This project has been approved without a proper climate impact assessment, and in contradiction to pledges under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius which entails limiting fossil fuels consumption.»

To solve this problem, Stiglitz (along with many other top climate experts) points out that a global price commitment would exert an identical pressure to reduce emission without requiring poor countries to emit less than rich countries.

It seems as if every gathering of more than two political leaders these days is being trumpeted as an opportunity to advance the fight against global warming, and when those said leaders go home without having secured any sort of promise or commitment on that front, the meeting is seen as a failure.

As we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

-LSB-...] Without that commitment, other governments and industries, including those in America, will be hesitant to engage with those countries when they try to partner on global warming.

The climate wars between the major political parties have cost us a host of lost business and employment opportunities, even a global leadership role, and yet we drift on without an energy policy that might provide some relief to rising power costs and some strategy to meet our commitments to reduce emissions.

Peter Wittoeck, a spokesperson for the European Union, made it clear that while the E.U. was resolutely undecided on extending the protocol for a second commitment period with a new set of emission reduction targets, the Japanese calculations were correct: «If it is only the E.U. that is under such a commitment without the rest of the world... [then] that would not be a solution for the global climate problem.»

Whether navigating a four - year military commitment «my way,» figuring out a novel or unconventional trial strategy or using innovation to lead a global organization, I would not be where I am today without creativity.

As the global markets fluctuate, businesses can be more responsive without a commitment to a permanent expansion of labor.