Sentence examples for binding cap from inspiring English sources

France, however, refused to commit to a binding cap on its stake.

While opposing a binding cap on emissions, either domestically or globally, he has supported some mandatory measures, including increases in renewable fuels like ethanol and higher fuel-efficiency standards, efforts his administration once resisted.

Last year, the independent Airports Commission, led by Howard Davies, recommended building a third runway at Heathrow on condition of a ban on night flights, a legally binding cap on noise, acceptable performance on air quality and legislation to rule out ever building a fourth runway.

Unlike Mr. Gingrich, who opposes a tax or binding cap on greenhouse gases, Mr. Lomborg supports putting a price on emissions, although he says the right price is a tax of $2 to $14 on a ton of carbon dioxide — about the equivalent of a 2- to 14-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax.

If market forces deliver emissions reductions cheaper and faster than anticipated, then states should lock in that progress with a binding cap to ensure that emissions don't rise and that incentives for reducing pollution remain.

In any case, they said, the important thing to focus on was the legal limit to be imposed by the new treaty, which brings down the binding cap on deployed warheads by 30 percent.

And it also helps us move toward a truly international system, by providing an incentive for developing countries to take on binding caps of their own".

Those conditions should include a ban on night flights, legally binding caps on noise and air quality – and legislation to rule out ever building a fourth runway.

Durban needs to send a clear signal that the world is moving rapidly in this direction and that as soon as countries become sufficiently prosperous they will accept binding caps.

These are legally binding caps on emissions set over five years by the ­Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the independent body set up to advise the government on how big the cuts should be.

Based on such a political calculus, one can at least conceive of Congress, two years hence, passing an updated version of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, which imposed binding caps on future spending.