Sentence examples for commitments to limit from inspiring English sources

"Progress was also made on agriculture, with commitments to limit harmful speculation and investing more in agricultural productivity," he said.

Still, the willingness of a number of nations to economically embrace the Iranian regime must not keep us from enforcing Iran's important commitments to limit its nuclear program.

Van Beurden has not yet signalled a slowdown in the high-cost oil and gas investment that has made Shell a target of anti-fossil fuel campaigners, who believe such investments will only result in so-called stranded assets – carbon made unburnable by international commitments to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Two major super funds, HESTA and UniSuper, have made strong commitments to limit their fossil fuel investments, major fund managers such as AMP Capital are offering fossil free funds, and a number of ethical funds - such as Australian Ethical, Hunter Hall and new kid on the block Future Super - have entirely limited their investments in coal, gas and oil (some for a long time).

Businesses were meeting, under the auspices of the French government, to set out their aims ahead of the global conference in Paris this December, at which governments are to set out their commitments to limit greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020, when current commitments run out.

Each of these, separately or in combination, has been used in designing schemes for differentiation of commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

All three main parties have made commitments to limiting the pay of bankers and public-sector executives in the run-up to the election, but there has been a noticeable lack of pledges to crack down on the remuneration of board members in the private sector.

Obama called Monday for an international pact "that builds in ambition," an acknowledgment that the voluntary agreements won't result in the sought-after 2-degree-Celsius limit on global temperature growth, but will provide flexibility where nations could gradually make more robust commitments to limiting emissions.

According to Stern, it is critically important that the US president announce his commitment to limit global temperatures to a rise of no more than 2C.

A commitment to limit warming to two degrees by 2050, as proposed by the G8 club of rich countries, will not halt climate change.

The agreement finally patched together in Copenhagen by President Barack Obama and leaders from China, India, Brazil, South Africa late on Friday set a commitment to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 Fahrenheit.