If approved, countries would have committed to binding agreements to reduce CO2 emissions to keep the planet from heating by more than 2 degrees Celsius.
Moreover, all the main support measures undertaken in Central and Eastern Europe, like the Vienna Initiative, for instance, were not legally binding agreements, but based on voluntary participation within a multilateral framework.
We will be lobbying for a clear road map for the SDGs and one that prioritizes women's representation, binding agreements on universal access to reproductive health and pledges to deliver those services.
Start made dramatic reductions in nuclear forces of some 80% but the key point at this moment is that it contains binding agreements on verification and when the treaty runs out so do those commitments.
The treaty is not legally binding, and does not come into effect until January 2015, but Ambassador Terry Kramer, who headed the U.S. delegation Dubai, said it was important to make sure that countries did not eventually agree to a more binding set of global agreements that they could use to justify acts of censorship online.
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President Bush should reaffirm the Reagan Administration policy opposing framework agreements which establish binding commitments bereft of detailed implementing arrangements, in particular those that bear upon the verifiability of such accords.
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In some cultures, personal bonds and informal agreements are far more binding than any formal contract.
Additionally, at the time of execution of definitive agreements with respect to our proposal, we expect to provide binding financing commitments from debt and equity financing sources in the form customary for a transaction of this type.
These included an evaluation of whether voluntary agreements made by the energy companies in April should be "made binding" through legislation.
The group got off to a blazing start, with hundreds of companies, including DuPont, Ford and Motorola, rushing in with agreements to buy and sell rights to emit CO2 above a legally binding quota.
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