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The scientific consensus is that greenhouse-gas emissions are generating significant risks, but the scale and timing of these risks remain uncertain.
The Conference, which included the original five nuclear weapon states (the United States, Russia, China, France, and Great Britain) as well as a great number of other UN members, did not reach consensus on a "Final Declaration."
But worse still, in troubled times conventional Euro-politicians instinctively reach for consensus, cohabitation, and coziness.
But the political consensus about how to tackle terrorism, which prevailed after the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Hypercacher kosher supermarket, has eroded.
The Mismeasure of TechnologyCAMBRIDGE – There is nothing better than fuzzy language to wreak havoc – or facilitate consensus.
The answer explains the unusual consensus among economists, for “technology” is measured as a kind of “none of the above” category, a residual – Nobel laureate Robert Solow called it “total factor productivity” – that remains unexplained after accounting for other production inputs, such as physical and human capital.
The educated consensus is that the global climate’s current trajectory must be reversed much more rapidly than business as usual would allow.
Russian officials have expressed some interest in these projects (some of which were originally proposed by the Kremlin), but they have insisted on first achieving consensus with the US on underlying strategic principles.
It is now going on over the question, who defines the center in the right way, and so we have a new center and an old center, a left center and a right center, but they all are built on a basic consensus, namely that a society without a market core is impossible.
Despite the gravity of the situation, Hollande has three advantages: excessive austerity is unrealistic, given growing social opposition; public deficits are only a small part of Europe’s problems (and are not necessarily the source of the crisis); and a strong consensus has emerged outside of Germany to change tack.
Of course, one might argue that the emerging European consensus is quite ambiguous.
The UN also has the unique role and opportunity to offer leadership in building a global consensus around vital long-term environmental and economic challenges facing the planet.
Soon afterwards, a consensus formed among many Asian leaders that broader cooperation and coordination was needed.
For decades, Friedman remained stranded in the intellectual wilderness, spurning the postwar Keynesian consensus that governments should use fiscal policy to manage aggregate demand – a view that sustained statist economic policies through the 1970’s.
Beyond such general skepticism, there is a clear and growing gap between the views of ordinary citizens and the government’s policy approach – the so-called “Berlin consensus.”
There is a clear norm against the spread of nuclear weapons, but there is no consensus or treaty on what, if anything, is to be done once a country develops or acquires nuclear weapons.
Despite a strong consensus among economists that Puerto Rico needs a radically different economic and debt-restructuring plan, the relevant policymakers do not seem to be listening.
Here, and elsewhere, the US will need to take the lead; the parties cannot be expected to reach consensus by themselves.
All those days spent in secret conclave in Basel, drinking through the BIS’s legendary wine cellar, have apparently led to no consensus.
The wage surprise draws its inspiration from the Netherlands, where a consensus emerged in the early 1980’s that in order to sustain employment, the burden of taming rampant inflation should be shared by employers and the employed.
That consensus was enshrined in the 1982 “Wassenaar Agreement,” named after The Hague suburb where it was forged.
Japan is now witnessing the emergence of a similar national consensus, or, rather, the Dutch consensus in reverse: a shared sense that the government, major industries, and organized labor should work together to increase wages and bonuses (while facilitating incentives that could enhance productivity).
But it is equally true that the emerging consensus among the government, business leaders, and trade unions already has led a growing number of companies to promise significantly higher wages and bonuses.
Horrific images of women and children dying in agony mobilized international consensus against the use of these types of weapons.
In response, Iglesias has declared that, “one cannot storm heaven by consensus.”
At that time, the consensus among economists and policymakers was that these estimates were exaggerated, because it was believed that sub-prime mortgage losses totaled only about $200 billion.
In less than four years, President Bush and his advisers have cast aside much of the longstanding bipartisan consensus under which the United States works through and with multilateral institutions like the United Nations.
But the long-standing practice has been to adopt all decisions by consensus.
The problem is that consensus is interpreted as an unlimited veto power, such that a member can block any discussion on matters of interest to others.
The problems with both S&D and consensus decision-making at the WTO are not new, but they have long been ignored, allowing them to deepen.
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