We suggested: Significantly increasing access to BBC online commissioning for independent producers with measurable, enforceable targets for commissioning.
Still, officials from those countries are wary of any treaty that binds them to enforceable targets, believing that such measures could permanently condemn them to second-class economic status.
The American reluctance to accept any agreement that would require legally binding and internationally enforceable targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions could doom the Copenhagen session, they said.
After a contentious two-week conference in the Danish capital last month, representatives of more than 190 nations issued a skeletal document, known as the Copenhagen Accord, that sets climate-related goals for developed and developing countries, but without enforceable targets or timetables.
There is strong bipartisan support among budget negotiators in Washington for an enforceable debt target as an essential component of a credible deficit-reduction plan.
In response, major regulatory organizations in the United States and Canada set enforceable or target standard levels to limit PM2.5 concentrations below those where epidemiologic evidence is most consistent and coherent.
3. Set Verifiable and Enforceable Interim Targets for Reducing Pollution.
"Having an enforceable domestic renewables target for the last decade has made Europe the world leader in green jobs and energy," Mr Wilks added.
The case for this approach is that it offers an enforceable total-emissions target, achieved through a market mechanism whose flexibility might ease necessary changes in the industrial economy.
What if, say, 50 years down the road, oil sands production has been scaled back to meet real, enforceable international climate targets, and weed has taken off as a new centerpiece of Alberta's economy?
