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It should lead by respecting the commitments enshrined in the European treaties.
It won’t take long: the document runs to two pages, contains no commitments to cut emissions, and outlines no policies to implement the undefined cuts.
must clarify that [Durban] does not imply that India has to take binding commitments to reduce its emissions in absolute terms in 2020.”
This is not the time to renege on those commitments.
Nevertheless, European military capabilities are limited, requiring that European planners look for “minimal” options, with the drawback that smaller commitments generally require a long-term perspective.
All of these declarations and commitments are an important first step.
We must challenge the international community and development partners to back their words with real financial commitments.
Estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggest that in a “new policies” scenario that is broadly comparable with national commitments enshrined in the Paris agreement, the world would need to invest $68.3 trillion in energy-related systems between now and 2040.
So long as foreign investors and central banks are content to continue piling up holdings of US debt, America can go on spending whatever is needed to sustain its many security commitments around the world, as well as finance its trade and budget deficits.
To ensure such an outcome, debt relief and tough reforms should be phased in over time, according to an agreed schedule, with each party following through on its commitments, as long as the other does, as well.
Yet the same EU members have failed to endow the European Commission with overall responsibility for holding member governments to their commitments and, where necessary, imposing penalties for breaches.
This could take the air out of incipient assets bubbles that might be forming and ease pressures on institutional investors who are struggling to find the yield they need to meet their insurance and pension commitments.
Equally disturbing has been the continuing reluctance of international leaders to provide new financial commitments to Ukraine, despite growing pressure on its foreign-currency reserves and the specter of a full-blown financial meltdown.
That virtue consisted in honoring commitments, and it would build solidarity in the new political community of the United States.
Something along these lines is likely to be no less critical for Asia, where the US, which is also a Pacific power, has vital interests and deep commitments.
This requirement of the eurozone’s Stability and Growth Pact, specified by Article 126 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, applies to member states that fail to meet their commitments to bring their budget deficits below 3% of GDP.
And many funding agencies, including governments and NGOs, typically offer only one-year commitments, which rules out long-term planning.
But at the moment, onerous spending rules and weak financial commitments are tying the hands of those working to prevent the next serious disease outbreak.
Funding sources must be opened to allow for multi-year commitments.
France has taken on important international commitments recently that all must appreciate, with the hope that France’s political, economic, and social reawakening continues.
But this hard-earned trust is now in grave danger as populist forces across the Western world take aim at their countries’ foreign-aid commitments.
The She Decides conference – hosted by the Belgian, Danish, Dutch, and Swedish governments – focused on securing financial and political commitments to support the sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and women.
Some of that unfinished business consists in reconciling past commitments with current interests.
Since the end of the 1990s, Mexico has accepted the idea of subjecting its commitments in this area to international scrutiny.
In almost all of the rich-country proposals about targets, limits, commitments, and permits for greenhouse gases, there is hardly a word about helping poor countries to finance the transition to sustainable technologies.
Investment banks’ commitments to leveraged buyouts became liabilities.
It also undertook specific commitments with respect to the conduct of its fiscal policy, though these constraints are not as “hard” as those framing monetary policy.
Too often, international economic commitments serve not to fix democratic failures at home, but to privilege corporate or financial interests and undermine domestic social bargains.
French Socialists will not renounce their traditional commitments; nor should they.
I agree with the critics’ conclusion, but not with their premise, for the success of the single currency so far has been due precisely to the political commitments of the Union’s member countries.
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