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Trump could have adjusted the US’s “nationally determined” emissions targets and financial commitments, possibly even increasing the Paris deal’s chances for Senate ratification.
Things look different in Asia, where the US not only remains present, but has increased its commitments.
In 2005, the international community renewed its commitments to help the poorest countries meet the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), which aim to halve poverty by 2015.
These commitments include significant increases in debt relief and aid.
If they are to be met, donors must also deliver on their commitments for significant increases in aid.
Indeed, even if money is appropriated for regional needs, it is sometimes not released because the Kremlin lacks the resources to keep its commitments.
Such joint and several liability, the plaintiffs assert, contradicts the Court’s previous statements that Germany should not accept any financial commitments stemming from other states’ behavior.
Without accountability, goals and commitments have little meaning.
This, in turn, leads to better moral commitments, including avoidance of violence.
On both sides, stated commitments to resolve the issue cooperatively have not produced significant results.
Given aging populations in industrial countries, large commitments from governments to social-insurance systems, and no clear plans for balancing government budgets in the long run, we would expect to see inflation and risk premiums – perhaps not substantial, but clearly visible – priced into even the largest and richest economies’ treasury debt.
If North Korea is, indeed, continuing to develop not only its nuclear arsenal, but also various types of ballistic missiles, in defiance of international commitments, it is truly a rogue state.
So far, rich countries have not risen to the challenge; despite commitments made at Kyoto, Bali, and elsewhere, the resources committed for climate-change mitigation – let alone adaptation – in developing countries have been paltry and poorly targeted.
Despite the encouragement of Iran’s civil nuclear program by the US, Britain, Germany, and France, they all ultimately reneged on their contractual commitments after our revolution in 1979.
I proposed to the Council that it convene a summit on nuclear disarmament, and I urged non-NPT states to freeze their own weapon capabilities and make their own disarmament commitments.
Countries with nuclear weapons should publish more information about what they are doing to fulfill their disarmament commitments.
Commitments on adaptation in the Paris agreement would go a long way toward closing this gap.
Eurozone leaders have spoken about all of these, but the time has come for unequivocal commitments and a realistic timetable for action.
Strong political commitments are needed to provide the aid that is needed to accelerate progress, and to secure success for the Doha trade round that is so crucial for developing countries' longer-term prospects.
France, too, has competitiveness problems, and is unable to meet its commitments under the European Union’s Fiscal Compact.
As a result, while many advanced and developing countries are pursuing far-reaching measures to increase energy efficiency and adopt clean-energy technologies, their existing technologies, incentives, regulations, and commitments imply a sharp rise in total carbon emissions in the coming decades.
As long as China’s economy does grow, its military power will likely increase, thus making China appear more dangerous to its neighbors and complicating America’s commitments in Asia.
The dividends promised by a “green” MFF (which recently received the support of the European Parliament) are at least threefold: a higher share of jobs in one of the world’s fastest-growing economic sectors; lower energy bills for households throughout Europe; and help in achieving the reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions to which all EU states have agreed as part of their “Europe 2020” commitments.
There is no reason that thousands of companies cannot make similar commitments.
And the US Drug Enforcement Administration will not look kindly on any backtracking from previous Mexican presidents’ commitments to continue waging a costly, bloody, and futile war of choice on drugs in Mexico.
In a sad irony they seem to have been proven right only recently, when democracy’s greatest triumph, the defeat of totalitarian communism, also ushered in a world of deracinated commitments.
Likewise, a binding and enforceable deal on Iran’s nuclear program could encourage progress at this spring’s Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference toward instituting firm commitments to implement the action items agreed upon at the 2010 round – in particular, establishing a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East.
And the negotiating parties must move beyond the soft “intended nationally determined contributions,” agreed to last month in Lima, to establish legally binding commitments.
But, with a well-designed set of commitments and targets, we can move onto the right path.
We encourage donors to follow through on their commitments to increase effective aid for trade – assistance to help developing countries take full advantage of trade opportunities as a lever for growth.
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