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The trick for policymakers is to identify the
binding
constraint on economic growth at the relevant moment in time.
With the US government now borrowing around 40% of every dollar it spends, a truly
binding
debt ceiling would immediately force the government to reduce spending radically and in a disorderly fashion.
Doing this will require the key players responsible for the Internet’s openness to enter into a mix of voluntary and
binding
agreements that establish something akin to the rule of law.
These are important first steps, but if the process does not eventually lead to
binding
agreements, it is unlikely to succeed in keeping the Internet functioning and safe.
This measure, which will work only if it is binding, is in the interest of all countries and companies, because the trust that users have in the services built on top of these protocols depends on it.
The court’s creation would require an international treaty or a
binding
act of the United Nations to ensure its universal jurisdiction.
Most likely, it would be adopted through a
binding
resolution of the UN Security Council, with the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon serving as precedents.
A proposal now stands to extend ex ante coordination to major economic reforms and to introduce some form of
binding
contractual arrangements between EU institutions and member states, which would ensure that the reforms Europe needs can be delivered.
Throughout these discussions, the line between asylum seekers and economic migrants, who are not protected by
binding
international humanitarian conventions, has been blurred.
As a result, demand now falls short of any
binding
constraint.
The failure of Copenhagen was not the absence of a legally
binding
agreement.
Until now, nuclear-weapon states’ national governments and bureaucracies have preferred to limit the disarmament debate to symbolic measures that imply no deadlines or additional legally
binding
obligations.
Indeed, no one should underestimate the magnitude of the challenge now facing South Africa, the host of next year’s talks, in terms of midwifing a new legally
binding
agreement to bridge this gap and securing the finance needed to bring the Green Fund into operation.
Above all, a new treaty would allow both Russia and the West to secure their interests in a balanced and
binding
agreement.
Though invitations by the West to join organizations such as the NATO-Russia Council or the G-8 may have been symbolically important and thus politically valuable, these venues provide only forums for discussion; they do not produce
binding
agreements.
This has proven impossible on controversial policies – such as
binding
reductions on carbon emissions – even when a simple majority supports the legislation.
Our demand for a
binding
international mechanism to distribute the burden of climate change – a mechanism to ensure climate justice – must not go unheeded in Paris.
By blocking glutamate from
binding
to the NMDA receptor, ketamine leads to an augmented glutamate release, which activates other types of glutamate receptors and enhances the function and density of synapses (the junctions between neurons) in areas of the brain where stress or depression has caused cells to atrophy.
Second, targets need to be not only specific, but also
binding.
If an international agreement to protect the world’s climate is to be reached, much greater action to reduce CO2 emissions will be needed on the part of the US, as well as
binding
commitments on China’s part to reduce its carbon burden.
It can do so because the Court's judgments will be legally
binding
and thus enforceable in national courts.
With the ability to hand down
binding
judgments, the DSM is a unique feature of the WTO system.
Two Cheers for China’s Climate ObstructionCOPENHAGEN – Since the Copenhagen climate summit’s failure, many politicians and pundits have pointed the finger at China’s leaders for blocking a binding, global carbon-mitigation treaty.
My research on growth diagnostics (with Ricardo Hausmann, Andrés Velasco, and others) is an example of this style of work, showing how one can identify in a specific context the more
binding
among a multitude of growth constraints.
But as the conference approached, a growing number of countries, led by the US, complained that the Compact enabled the imposition of
binding
obligations in the future, thus infringing on their sovereignty.
In the short to medium run, increasing Greek competitiveness requires remedies targeted at specific
binding
constraints faced by exporters.
One promising step, recommended by a UN working group in January, is the development of a new, legally
binding
agreement on high-seas biodiversity, to be ready for the UN General Assembly to review by September.
The European Union, for example, has affirmed its commitment to the UNFCCC’s Kyoto Protocol, the only international climate-change treaty to date to include
binding
emissions-reduction targets.
This approach – endorsed as a basis for negotiation in the recent EU Council – amounted to allowing some member states not to fulfill their supposedly
binding
Kyoto burden-sharing targets.
And that framework is subject to the
binding
decisions of the ECJ.
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