Sentence examples for binding conventions from inspiring English sources

The new deal will focus on seven key areas of cooperation, including the protection of South Africa's biodiversity and compliance with internationally binding conventions like Cites.

"It's a moral obligation, regardless of all these treaties and binding conventions," Alizada said.

Founded on the desire to escape the binding conventions of daily life, Las Vegas is a city where barriers between good and evil, authentic and fake, good taste and bad have no meaning.

The declaration could take two or more years to negotiate and even then would not be a legally binding convention.

Latin American countries are poised to agree the world's first legally binding convention to protect environmental defenders at a conference in Costa Rica.

Indeed, an effort by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to create a legally binding convention to outlaw human cloning foundered.

In the late 80s, France coined the notion of "cultural exception" which has since morphed into the less arrogant-sounding "cultural diversity", a principle adopted in October 2005 by Unesco as a legally binding convention passed by 185 states against two.

A legally binding convention that prevents Caspian nations from opening their borders to third-party aggressors – such as the US or Nato – or allowing any foreign military presence at all on Caspian waters is a triumph for Putin.

The United Nations has been unable to pass a binding Convention against reproductive cloning because of disagreement among member countries concerning the inclusion of research and therapeutic cloning.

But the United States pushed instead for voluntary measures to control emissions, making a legally binding convention a nonstarter.

This could be achieved either simultaneously as a framework convention on global health, or separately by starting with a framework on TB where other diseases specific targets could be built in subsequently, either way issued by the WHO as a legally binding convention.