Some of these rules make sense on their own terms (who could be against swift customs clearance or transparent government procurement?) but they would be costly for poor countries to implementandmonitor.
Of special note were concerns expressed about the supranational mechanisms that would have to be created to implement, monitorand enforce the sort of comprehensive energy management scheme entailed in such a treaty and the "emissions trading" arrangement expected to accompany it.
When an employee develops a new idea which may be good or bad, there are specified people and processes to evaluate it, implement it, monitor it, change it, or kill it, as it serves the organizational strategy.
And the recession hit Monitor particularly hard because clients needed well-tested solutions that were inexpensive to implementand that would deliver quick results.