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The false belief that we can collectively see the future using science has led us all to make various
binding
promises about things in that future that no human being can possibly guarantee.
The second lesson from Copenhagen is that to get a
binding
international agreement, there first must be a deal between the United States and China.
After all, a lot can be done without a
binding
agreement that sets national targets on carbon cuts.
While continuing to search for a
binding
international agreement, the international community should also explore innovative approaches, such as global public-private partnership initiatives.
Indeed, when Russia demanded that agreed limitations on nuclear strategic warheads be defined in a document
binding
both Moscow and Washington, the US balked, preferring a vague declaration of principle instead.
As if to confirm that the lesson has sunk in, Secretary of State Colin Powell has just informed Russia that the US is ready, after all, to enter a
binding
treaty on the reduction of nuclear weapons.
This raises the old question about whether a currency union can work without a fiscal union, or at least stronger and more
binding
fiscal rules (the Maastricht deficit commitments are too easily breached).
The invasion of Iraq in 2003 remains Exhibit A. But there are others, including the overreach (alongside the United Kingdom and France) of the UN Security Council’s mandate in Libya in 2011, and what Jessica Mathews has described as the “wasteland for multilateral commitments” in the US approach to
binding
treaties, including the Convention on Biodiversity, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Protocol on Torture, and, most relevant to the South China Sea, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Precisely for this reason, it becomes more “needy” – that is, more reliant on
binding
partners to maintain its structural integrity.
A
binding
climate agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, had just been finalized.
Yet, while the zero lower bound no longer seems to be a
binding
constraint, there are potential causes for concern, one of which relates to debt levels.
The first step is to make Russia honor its
binding
commitment to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as to the Council of Europe, to remove its troops from Moldova and Georgia.
During nearly all her history, Russia was a stranger to law as a principle
binding
ruler and ruled.
But some evidence suggests that he conceives law in the traditional Russian sense, that is, not as a principle
binding
equally the state and its citizens, but as device by means of which the state promotes its own interests.
In part, it is because the emotional glue
binding
Europe together has dried up.
The structure that Britain seems to have in mind is, according to some, reminiscent of the loose alliance
binding
the British Commonwealth.
It is becoming obvious that the highly trumpeted meeting set for Copenhagen this December will not deliver a
binding
international treaty that will make a significant difference to global warming.
Others blame developing countries – particularly Brazil, China and India – for a reluctance to sign up to
binding
carbon cuts.
Individual countries like Germany are making
binding
unilateral commitments that are not conditional on what other countries do, and “coalitions of the willing” are being formed to tackle particular sectors.
By contrast, Anglo Saxon common-law systems empower judges to interpret open-ended fiduciary rules on a case-by-case basis, thereby establishing legal precedents that are
binding
on managers.
In such policy domains, there is a strong case for establishing
binding
global rules, since each country, left to its own devices, has an interest in neglecting its share of the upkeep of the global commons.
Why is a group of countries whose share in worldwide CO2 emissions is only 12% – and set to decline fast – aspiring to global leadership on the issue, despite US inaction and emerging-market countries’ reluctance to commit to
binding
emission-reduction targets?
Doubling Down on European Energy EfficiencyBRUSSELS – At the COP21 conference in Paris last December, world leaders made a
binding
pledge to set national targets, including energy-efficiency benchmarks, for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
They acknowledge that we do not know what works, and that the
binding
constraints to development tend to be context-specific.
Rather than attempting to craft an accord based on legally
binding
restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions, the new approach relies on voluntary commitments by individual countries to rein in their contributions to climate change.
That is why, as world leaders and environment ministers prepare to attend the climate-change conference in Paris in November and December, persuading all major emitters to commit to ambitious and legally
binding
emissions reductions is no longer considered realistic.
Germany’s
binding
fiscal rules set a positive example for other eurozone countries.
Russia has consistently argued that only Security Council resolutions, not General Assembly resolutions, are
binding
international law.
At least in the case of the Murdoch empire, it now appears that they pursue long and
binding
relationships with politicians and the police as well.
Germany also led the move to establish a European “banking union” with a single regulatory framework and a
binding
resolution mechanism for troubled financial institutions.
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