Regardless, India will be required to reduce import duties to 150 percent by 2004 under a World Trade Organization rule.
The bank would be required to reduce the mortgage by the average price reduction of homes in the neighborhood.
Coal-fired power plants in Illinois will be required to reduce their mercury emissions by 90percentt by 2009, according to strict new state rules.
More than half of water companies will not be required to reduce their leakages by a single drop before 2015, despite the worst drought in 25 years.
In particular, many developing countries have insisted on the principle that only developed countries should be required to reduce the greenhouse gases blamed for damaging the atmosphere.
At the moment they are so lax that the Reputex analytics firm has calculated Australia's 20 biggest emitters would be able to significantly increase emissions and almost no big emitters would be required to reduce them.
Another reason the budget was delayed was a last-minute standoff over the Assembly's insistence that New York City be required to reduce class sizes in exchange for the increase in education aid.
But it has also, A.I.G. says, given the company "firm assurances" that it "will not be required to reduce ownership of any of A.I.G.'s existing 100-percent-owned insurance operations in China".
The United States, for instance, is producing nearly 22percentt more warming emissions now than in 1990, while under the treaty it would be required to reduce those gases by 7percentt below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012.
Shipping operators will be required to reduce emissions under an annex to a global maritime pollution convention, which designates the seas to the east and south of Britain a sulphur emission control area.
Superconductivity and supercooled electronics will be required to reduce the electrical resistance of the aircraft.
