Sentence examples for agreed-upon target from inspiring English sources

Although President Bush agreed to quadruple aid, to an internationally agreed-upon target of 0.7percentnt of the G.D.P., he hasn't matched his rhetoric with extra cash.

The moralist would try to keep the atmosphere from warming more than 2 degrees above its temperature in the preindustrial era, the agreed-upon target at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen four years ago.

And according to emissions specialists like the Tyndall Centre's Kevin Anderson (as well as others), so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of keeping warming below the internationally agreed-upon target of 2C is for wealthy countries to cut their emissions by somewhere in the neighbourhood of eight to 10% a year.

In other words, we face a $500 million shortfall in what is needed to reach the agreed-upon target date at the end of the year 2000.

In addition, continued unconstrained increases in greenhouse gas emissions are likely to cause global warming that substantially exceeds the internationally agreed-upon target (UNFCCC 2009) of 2 °C above the pre-industrial baseline (e.g., (Matthews et al. 2009; Meinshausen et al. 2009)).

A deal will probably include caps on discretionary spending, with agreed-upon targets for debt and deficit levels in years to come.

Nearly all Congressional Republicans want caps only on government spending, backed by the threat of across-the-board cuts if agreed-upon targets are exceeded.

At 160 Varick, fledgling companies are allowed to lease space in blocks of no more than six months, and these leases are renewed only if the businesses meet agreed-upon targets.

There is solace in the fact that 140 world leaders came to the United Nations in September to rededicate themselves to the Millennium Development Goals, the globally agreed-upon targets to fight poverty, hunger and disease.

Lending to small businesses by Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and other British banks was £74.9 billion ($118 billion) last year, less than the agreed upon target of £76 billion.

Roni Neff, director of the Food System Sustainability and Public Health program at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, said the world is on course to blow past the internationally agreed upon target of keeping temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-Industrial Age levels — and agricultural emissions are partly to blame.