IN June 1992, world leaders, including President George Bush, agreed to combat climate change at the Earth Summit meeting in Rio de Janeiro.
Over the last few days, India and Russia signed military procurement deals, agreed to combat terrorism emanating from Afghanistan and declared that they would strengthen their cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear power.
As I have discovered on numerous occasions, when the foundation is notified of inaccuracies, it simply refuses to admit it is wrong or to apologise," said Mr Ward, who is a reviewer for the forthcoming International Governmental Panel on Climate Change report that will shape the action the world agrees to combat global warming.
Far from agreeing to combat obesity, they decided, in effect, to profit from it, by making snack foods more addictive.
1996 - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan - dubbed the Shanghai Five - meet in Shanghai and agree to cooperate to combat ethnic and religious tensions in each others' countries.
Earlier last week, 26 public and private financial institutions with more than $11tn in assets, as well as stock exchanges across the world, met to agree ways to combat climate change.
To help beat back a resurgent Taliban, countries like Germany, France, Spain and Italy must agree to send more combat troops and lift restrictions on where and how their forces would operate — including bars on deployments to the south where the fighting is heaviest.
Pro-union party leaders insist they are biding their time but in private admit something crucial: they still have no coherent or agreed campaign to combat Salmond's methodical drive to independence.
Companies also agreed actively to combat smuggling and counterfeiting of tobacco products.
Political leaders not only shared that view but also recognized that any German politician who agreed to provide combat soldiers would automatically lose public support.
