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India’s leaders should make the same pledges, and should also join other nuclear powers in signing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Trump won the US presidency partly because of his pledges to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and ban Muslims from entering the country.
Finally, the sharp rise in pledges to the “Green Climate Fund” indicates a growing recognition of the disproportionate impact of climate change on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
Furthermore, pledges at the Lima conference by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Norway, and Peru bring the Green Climate Fund to nearly $10.2 billion.
Indeed, 2014 was characterized by the continued rise of “soft” instruments to address global challenges: pledges, decrees, self-regulation, joint plans of action, and handshake deals.
As a result, the summit will most likely produce sincere pledges to work together to stimulate the global recovery and adjust the two sides’ economic imbalances – but not much more.
Indeed, it will spur a review of countries’ emissions targets, aimed at closing the gap between current pledges and the reductions needed to remain below the two-degree threshold.
The loud cheering that has greeted past humanitarian aid pledges has given way to a shameful silence.
In February 2016, the Supporting Syria and the Region conference in London attracted $1.4 billion in pledges for education, but only a fraction of those funds have so far made it to the front lines.
The Paris climate agreement has no mechanism for sanctioning countries that fail to fulfill their pledges.
If the US uses the cheapest available fuels to produce energy, irrespective of the harm that burning those fuels does to others, it is giving its companies an unfair advantage over those elsewhere that are making a good-faith effort to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions and meet their Paris pledges.
The International Energy Agency estimates that if all countries fulfill the pledges made at the Paris climate change conference last month, the proportion of renewables could increase slightly in the next 25 years, to 18.7%.
For the first time, the US pledges not to retaliate with a nuclear strike even if attacked by chemical or biological weapons.
In addition, his administration pledges not to resume testing nuclear weapons by detonating them, and to seek to bring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) into force by securing its ratification by the US Senate and all other countries.
Over the last year, Ukrainian officials have made many pledges, but have made no arrests, identified no suspects, and presented no convincing motive for the killing.
Abhisit’s pledges of reform and reconciliation in the wake of April’s riots have made little headway.
Rather than attempting to dissuade mass migration by encouraging and supporting fundamental, long-term economic and political development in countries that are impoverished or wracked by civil strife, EU policymakers tend to intervene after the fact, with pledges of aid and emergency resettlement schemes.
In fact, all are squandering billions of dollars on modernization of their nuclear forces, making a mockery of United Nations disarmament pledges.
If secular stagnation persists, these countries will have to undertake painful structural reforms, figure out how to restructure their promises (debts, social-security commitments, and pledges to keep taxes low), and distribute the resulting burden.
But one critical question remains unresolved: How can we ensure that these voluntary individual pledges add up to a collective solution to a global problem?
When Iran is at a crossroads, a popular reformist candidate emerges, promising to end Iran’s international isolation, and his conservative rival defends Iran’s insularity as self-reliance and pledges handouts to the people.
A few days before that, President Asif Ali Zardari paid his fifth visit to Beijing since taking office in August 2008 – this one a state visit – and received pledges of support for developing nuclear power and constructing a railway line over the Karakoram mountain range, linking the two countries.
These promises and pledges underscore Islamabad’s growing dependence on foreign assistance, which is not surprising, given that Pakistan’s tax-to-GDP ratio has declined to less than 9%, the lowest among the 22 largest emerging economies.
Specifically, in order to lower the youth unemployment rate, which currently stands at 11.2%, Moon pledges to create 810,000 jobs in the public sector – including 174,000 civil-service positions in national security and public safety and 340,000 in social services – over the next five years.
One of the DPJ’s major campaign pledges was “change,” which, at its core, meant anything but the LDP.
Now is the time to give concrete direction and pledges regarding enlargement.
We should applaud China, India, the United States, and the European Union for their pre-Paris pledges on climate action.
A few northern European countries – Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and, most surprisingly, the United Kingdom – in the midst of its self-inflicted austerity – fulfilled their pledges in 2014.
While taking care not to anger northern voters by openly distancing himself from Shari'ah, Buhari pledges to uphold the nation's secular constitution.
And, while global declarations are important – they prioritize financing and channel political will – many of today’s pledges have been made before.
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