The ruling is non-binding; it does not have legal force.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

It is the only developed country not to have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and is still resisting a legally binding international deal.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The opinion is not legally binding. Borges says there could be opposition from those who say granting so much territory to indigenous peoples is inhibiting the country's development.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

The Clinton visit was not without discord, with India saying flatly Sunday it intends to stand firm against western demands that it accept binding limitations on the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

The Copenhagen conference was to come up with a binding agreement to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which mandated emissions cuts, but was not signed by some of the world's biggest polluters, including the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

"What we hear is that the kind of legally binding agreement that we,for instance, did inside the European Union, will probably not be possible since some of the countries like the United States say we do not have the support in our congress to make a ratification on an international agreement,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.06