On 14 July 2010, former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, who attended the conference last December as the Council of Europe's rapporteur on climate change, criticised the push for a legally binding agreement on emissions.
Such a group could not impose legally binding directives on any country (especially not countries like France that are 75-percent reliant on domestic nuclear energy generation).
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The governing body's Participation Agreement with its four regions is a legally binding document on governance of the game in Wales including the release of Welsh players to the national squad and funding for the regions.
She said the goal of the conference remained securing an "ambitious, comprehensive, legally binding international framework" on committing countries to reducing emissions.
This manifests in a variety of ways, including the glacial pace of progress on an international, legally-binding climate agreement, the relatively low priority given to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the lack of understanding of the importance of natural capital in ensuring human survival, and the tiny budget allocated to conservation in most countries.
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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.
Mr Lowther has written to the children's parents excluding them but the move is not legally binding and the pupils could return on Thursday.
An independent Climate Change Committee is supposed to advise on and police legally binding emissions-reduction targets, but it is new and its powers untested.
They secured the removal of language contained in early drafts that spoke of a Copenhagen deal as a step on the road to a legally binding treaty.
Labour rebels, who fear greater freedom from local authorities could mean a "back-door" return to academic selection at age 11, want a national code on admissions to be made legally binding.
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And the environmental group WWF said ministers had "decided on a legally neutral text with few binding timelines and concrete measures".
Canada pledged internationally to meet its commitment on the Kyoto Protocol, which was supposed to be legally binding.
On the most immediate challenge, working out an arms control agreement to replace the START I treaty which expires December 5, the two presidents signed a joint understanding for a follow-on agreement to START that commits both parties to a legally binding treaty that will reduce nuclear weapons.
Prime Minister David Cameron has described lobbying as "the next big scandal" and the UK government is consulting on whether the current voluntary system should be replaced by a legally binding register.
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The government spent 0.56% on aid in 2010 and is planning legislation to make the target legally binding.
"Without the legally binding contract that the European retailers have signed, it's just putting lipstick on a pig, " said Bob Ross, a critic of sweatshops who teaches sociology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
On 3 December the Addicks confirmed that lifelong fan Murray had accepted a legally binding offer for the acquisition of Baton 2010, Charlton Athletic Football Company Limited and Charlton Athletic Holdings Limited from an investor group represented by Varney.
"He has a legally binding contract, " Sarries coach Brendan Venter said after their 29-28 loss to Gloucester on 3 April.
Next month's climate talks aim to strike a deal on a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 pact that has legally binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is a legally-binding international agreement that ensures artists, cultural professionals, practitioners and citizens worldwide can create, produce, disseminate and enjoy a broad range of cultural goods, services and activities, including their own.
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