Binding
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International rules bind the US and limit America's freedom of action, but they also serve American interests by
binding
others to observable rules and norms as well.
Finally, in October 2016, the UN General Assembly’s First Committee, which is responsible for international peace and security, voted “to convene in 2017 a United Nations conference to negotiate a legally
binding
instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.”
The new resolution’s instructions are straightforward: “States participating in the conference” should “make their best endeavors to conclude as soon as possible a legally
binding
instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.”
Equally important, governments should view migration as a profoundly
binding
dimension of the human experience.
Especially with regard to financial and currency issues, the EU has a strong institutional base – the euro as a common currency, the European Central Bank, and the
binding
budget and debt criteria of the Maastricht Treaty.
There was already movement after Argentina’s earlier default to add “collective-action clauses” that allowed the holders of an individual bond issue to take a
binding
vote to accept a restructuring offer.
In Europe, Royal Dutch Shell’s lobbying so diluted the European Union’s efforts that there are now no
binding
targets for renewables or energy efficiency for individual countries.
Given the rapidly approaching 2015 deadline to negotiate a new
binding
international agreement on climate change under the Durban Platform, a US administration that supports institutional solutions to global problems is vital.
In the end, we might end up with four more years of American resistance to
binding
international mechanisms.
With the rise of the welfare state, the constraint became less binding, allowing for more trade liberalization.
Russia, whose nuclear arsenal represents one of the last remaining pillars of its “great power” status, declared that it would agree to further cuts only after the US offered a legally
binding
agreement that its proposed anti-ballistic missile (ABM) shield in Europe would not be aimed at Russia.
The DSM is the pride of the WTO: it is the only impartial and
binding
mechanism for adjudicating and enforcing contractual obligations defined by the WTO and accepted by its members.
It is time for President Barack Obama’s administration to see what we see and allow its negotiators to press for adoption of a legally
binding
treaty.
Rather, they should suggest a treaty
binding
every nation to spend, say, 0.1% of GDP on research and development of non-carbon-emitting energy technologies.
Combining environmental and developmental frameworks is a good idea – one that builds on the success of a host of legally
binding
international conventions and agreements crafted under the UN’s auspices to protect the climate, conserve biodiversity, uphold human rights, and reduce poverty.
Full normalization of political and economic relations would follow, including
binding
security guarantees upon agreement of a regional security design.
According to the FMLC paper, “they are usually the subject of interpretative disagreement, are not legally binding, do not benefit from any
binding
dispute-resolution mechanisms, and do not prevent national authorities from acting unilaterally.”
Earlier conferences of the UNFCCC signatories sought to reach legally
binding
agreements on emission reductions, at least for the industrialized countries that have produced most of the greenhouse gases now in the atmosphere.
By including the entire international community in its partly
binding
framework, the deal establishes a new paradigm in global governance.
Given the difficulty of such large-scale intergovernmental cooperation, a more ambitious and
binding
global agreement could not reasonably be expected, at least not anytime soon.
While the voluntary obligations contained in the Paris agreement are important, what is really needed is legally
binding
commitments (based, of course, on scientific calculations, modeling, and simulations).
This would leave the EU no choice but to change its internal plans, undermining its ability to stay on track to meet emissions-reduction aspirations for 2050 and diminishing member states’ willingness to agree to ambitious and legally
binding
climate and energy targets for 2030.
The reasons were always the same: politico-religious fanaticism and the blunder of challenging the prevailing world powers – hence modern Zionism’s obsessive quest for a
binding
alliance with a superpower.
Binding
international rules are thus imperative in order to ensure the safety of fast-growing commercial air traffic.
Yet, by the end of the talks, the European Union’s climate commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, was being applauded in the media for achieving a “breakthrough” that had “salvaged Durban,” and, most significantly, for achieving the holy grail of climate negotiations, a “legally
binding
treaty.”
Just a few days later, the Indian environment minister, Shrimati Jayanthi Natarajan, stressed that there was no legally
binding
treaty: “India cannot agree to a legally
binding
agreement for emissions reduction at this stage of our development.…I
must clarify that [Durban] does not imply that India has to take
binding
commitments to reduce its emissions in absolute terms in 2020.”
It seems evident that this principle will be effectively
binding
on all member states, and all candidates for membership.
An extensive global safety regime is now in place that includes
binding
international legal instruments, internationally agreed safety standards, peer review and assessment, nationally integrated systems of governmental and regulatory control, and research and development.
Although IAEA safety standards are the recognized international benchmark and are now being incorporated into European Union law, they are voluntary, not
binding.
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