Sentence examples for binding reductions from inspiring English sources

The question had been: could the world agree on meaningful, binding reductions in emissions to avoid dangerous climate change?

China and the United States together produce about 40percentt of the world's total emissions and neither has agreed to binding reductions.

But in the wake of President Bush's rejection of the treaty or any binding reductions, they had strict orders not to offer new ideas.

They believe that the consequences are likely to be calamitous unless the industrialized world commits itself, as it did in the Kyoto accord of 1997, to binding reductions in greenhouse gases.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is to hold talks in Paris at the end of 2015 in an attempt to get nations – particularly in the developed world – to agree to binding reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Governments had also failed to agree an agenda to structure discussions in the run-up to the crucial Paris summit in 2015, when they have pledged to agree legally binding reductions in carbon emissions.

Kerry told the Financial Times on Wednesday that any agreement in Paris, where world leaders meet in three weeks' time, is "definitively not going to be a treaty" and there were "not going to be legally binding reduction targets like Kyoto", in a reference to the world's only previous binding climate treaty.

Along with all other developing countries, China and India refused to sign on to the legally binding reduction targets agreed to by industrialized nations at the Kyoto conference in 1997.

Additional ITC titrations using H3K27me3 peptides in shorter H3 frames of 19 34 and 21 32 revealed 3.9- and 7.8-fold binding reduction (Fig. 1F), suggesting that distal sequence motifs other than "ARKS" contribute to H3K27me3 recognition and thus discriminate against H3K9me3.

However, in the end, this was limited to agreeing to start negotiations on the question next year: –China and India were reluctant to discuss anything perceived as leading to binding reduction targets for them.

Kerry sparked a public dispute with European leaders when he told the Financial Times on Nov. 11 that any international agreement emerging from the Paris conference would not be a "treaty" with "legally binding reduction targets".