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For example, pledges to cut carbon emissions, while lacking any enforcement mechanism, may be helping countries to do the right thing for their own citizens’ children and grandchildren.
Persuading China to impose potentially regime-destroying sanctions will also require economic pledges, with the entire international community – especially the US, Japan, and South Korea – committing to share the mammoth costs of sheltering refugees and rebuilding North Korea’s economy.
At last year’s replenishment conference, $2.1 billion in donor funds were leveraged to bring about an additional $26 billion in pledges from national governments.
Since the election, Trump has mostly avoided talking about his trade-protectionist campaign pledges, such as imposing punishing tariffs on China and Mexico, dismantling the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and rescinding America’s bilateral trade agreement with South Korea.
But as important as these commitments are, Africa’s education crisis will not be overcome by donations and pledges alone.
After all, even in times of prosperity, the international community has been notorious for making grand pledges, only to renege when it comes to following through with the money.
Even before the crisis, the G-8 countries were not taking serious steps to meet their pledges to Africa.
But we run a risk of the tenth time…”Today, Greece’s European creditors seem ready to abandon their solemn pledges on the irrevocability of the euro in order to insist on collecting some crumbs from the country’s pensioners.
The EU pledges to help set up “Western-type public institutions” and to transform the Eastern economies through comprehensive free-trade agreements.
Macri should take advantage of the credibility established by these moves – which must, of course, be reinforced by progress toward Argentina’s renewable-energy targets and reducing deforestation – to encourage other countries to revise their pledges.
Because the current set of pledges is inadequate to limit the rise in global temperature to the Paris accord’s target of “well below two degrees Celsius,” the United Nations will hold a special dialogue in 2018 to encourage countries to submit more ambitious pledges before 2020.
But, although aid is important, public funding from the developed countries can never be enough, even if we were to fulfill all our pledges.
The WHO elicited pledges from the world’s major drug companies not to exploit international repositories of genetic data for commercial benefit, but this has not satisfied Indonesia.
But no sooner have such pledges been made than they have been broken.
Climate pledges will be made on the basis of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), or commitments to the reduction of emissions worldwide.
I believe that the price of emissions should be at the center of these pledges.
Ahead of the Paris summit, more than 160 countries submitted emissions mitigation pledges.
The challenge now is to deliver on these pledges.
Support from around the world is fitful: only 60% of aid pledges have come in, with only a fraction actually reaching the intended beneficiaries.
For the League, delivering on its electoral pledges is particularly urgent, as it is eager to cement its lead against its former center-right allies – notably, Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia – and even M5S before next year’s European Parliament elections.
Of course, their pledges must be reflected and reinforced by commitments from governments, multilateral institutions, and civil society.
But as with many promises, America and other donor countries have so far failed to live up to their pledges.
At the UN's Millennium Summit in September 2000, the world's leaders made solemn pledges to tackle global poverty.
Meanwhile, the EU has failed to deliver fully on aid and trade pledges to Turkish Cypriots.
These pledges, reformulated as specific, measurable targets, became the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
But, despite Xi’s investment pledges, it is far from certain that Asia’s two giants, both with growing global aspirations, can bridge the differences that continue to burden their relationship.
A new report from Global Trade Alert warns that the G20 has failed to live up to its previous pledges on this issue.
Mitt Romney, the likely Republican nominee for president, pledges to increase the rate of shipbuilding – a commitment linked to an increased US presence in the Pacific.
The Paris agreement features pledges on greenhouse-gas emissions from developing countries, in exchange for which they will receive huge sums of cash from richer countries.
Despite past pledges to abandon nuclear-weapons development, the government has lately been pursuing new research, evidently in the hope of proclaiming the achievement of some new technological milestone.
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