Sentence examples for commit to binding from inspiring English sources
With no Senate action, there's no guarantee that the US will commit to binding targets.
The United States, also quite reasonably, is loath to commit to binding emissions reductions of its own until nascent market competitors like India and China do the same.
This would include requiring every party running for office to renounce violence, pursue its aims by peaceful means and commit to binding laws and international agreements.
Many political observers said that Mr. Rudd and his 100-member-plus delegation to Copenhagen had hoped to present Australia's emissions trading system as an example of the developed world's willingness to commit to binding targets.
The culmination of his tenure came last December in Denmark, where he and many others tried — and failed — to get world powers to commit to binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Many American lawmakers insist that China commit to binding emission caps now, but China — which regards all caps with suspicion — sees this as infringing on its freedom to manage its own economy.
People sign agreements with employers committing to binding arbitration and non-competition clauses, but we place our happiness in trust based on unspecified faith in love.
Under the plan put forward last month by the European Commission, developed nations would commit to legally binding national emission targets this year, whereas emerging economies such as China and India would merely be obligated to submit loosely defined climate action strategies in 2011.
On Monday, a coalition of 100 countries, including the Alliance of Small Island States, the Africa Group and the Least Developed Countries, called upon industrialized nations to commit to legally binding carbon cuts.
Moreover, small- and medium-size companies can also be exempted from the tax provided they commit to legally binding CO2 reduction goals.
