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If the West now wants to hold Asian countries responsible for restraining new sources of greenhouse-gas emissions, it must first hold itself accountable for its old stock and current emissions.
A new study by the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Budget presents a very different outlook for US deficits and debt from the one contained in Trump’s budget blueprint.
Instead of encouraging the Japanese to think about collective security in a responsible way, Trump's indifference is more likely to play to the worst instincts of panicky Japanese nationalists.
Science and technology, after all, are not responsible for the careless and wasteful behavior that environmentalists rightly condemn.
Yet, while next-generation aquaculture will be far more ecologically responsible than its predecessors, it will also use far more energy.
A few responsible producers have introduced new techniques and technologies to combat pollution, from monitoring feed uptake with video cameras to integrating filter feeders like shellfish and seaweed into their systems.
To be sure, companies are increasingly creating product labels that help consumers make responsible choices – for instance, alerting users to products made from materials that are recycled, renewable, and/or less carbon-intensive.
While such an apocalyptic scenario is unlikely to occur, it cannot be ruled out, especially given that a cyber conflict, unlike most conventional military conflicts, can be initiated unintentionally, taking even the party responsible by surprise.
No responsible country in the world today sees any merit to North Korea’s behavior.
Moreover, fiscally responsible reforms involve hard choices, and tend to work only if they are drafted with a spirit of shared sacrifice: “I will give up my cherished benefit, if you give up yours.”
Only the state can be made responsible here.
Jeffrey Frankel Professor, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of GovernmentJapan’s War Guilt Revisited“It is our obligation as Japan’s most influential newspaper to tell our readers who was responsible for starting the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War.”
According to the Committee, “field officers were often more influential than even the Emperor, war ministers, and chiefs-of-staffs in making decisions to go to and escalate the wars, and were responsible for many atrocities.”
Religion, we are told, is responsible for violence, oppression, poverty, and many other ills.
I do not blame the Hungarian and Polish governments for refusing to accept refugees they do not want; but I do hold them largely responsible for impeding a European solution.
If France wants to capitalize on the positive emotions of Bastille Day, it needs much more responsible elites, ready to unite in the fight against unemployment and its causes (lack of competitiveness and labor-market rigidity) and consequences (the rise of populist, non-republican forces).
Responsible Iraqi leaders must be helped to channel today's tremendous political ferment in constructive directions.
In the years that have passed, China’s leaders were responsible not only for Zhao’s unlawful house arrest but also for a systematic effort to erase his name from history.
It is remarkable that an organization responsible for summarizing a body of evidence that acts as a cornerstone for national and global policymaking on climate change should be so under-resourced.
Like the eight-year civil war (in what was then known as Zaire) that nominally ended in 2002, the current fighting involves many different local groups: not only the Congolese government forces, which oppose the insurgents loyal to the Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda, but also the Rwandan Hutu rebels who were responsible for the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990’s and a jungle force known as the “Mai-Mai” militias.
Praphat Panyachartrak, responsible for most rural reform, had to fend off an attempt to discredit him as a land-grabber.
What we do know is that HPV is a highly infectious sexually transmitted virus, which is responsible for almost all forms of cervical cancer.
Isn’t that extremely disproportionate for an otherwise highly responsible bank?
In today’s noisy, confusing, multi-channel news landscape, where “fake news” is sold as fact, we need accountable, analytical, responsible reporting more than ever.
Under these circumstances, one can see why people yearn for international criminal prosecutions of responsible politicians.
But, with cities responsible for 70% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, mitigation is better.
A few thousand cars do burn, but three years later, the police – who wanted to undermine the support that the public gave, almost unanimously, to the movement – will own up to being responsible for far more of them than the demonstrators.
Chinese Coal CutsHONG KONG – In the fight to limit global warming, no country matters more than China – a massive coal-dependent country, which is responsible for 30% of global carbon-dioxide emissions.
Prodi's Commission decided to send Commissioners "into the field": their offices were no longer next to the President's office, but located in the department for which each was responsible.
Alas, the responsible, imaginative, and inclusive political leadership needed to minimize the damage is nowhere in sight.
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