Sentence examples for global limits from inspiring English sources

The UN's chief climate change negotiator has predicted that a Barack Obama victory next month would jump-start progress toward global limits on carbon emissions.

Many of those contacted say only a legally binding deal setting "top-down" global limits on emissions can ultimately avoid the worst impacts of rising temperatures.

The newly recognized global limits of natural resources force us & the Arabs & the Europeans & the Japanese & all the rest of the world into dependence on one another.

The delegates, operating under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, did agree in principle to negotiate new, global limits on greenhouse gases by 2015.

In October 2008 a meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London formally approved amendments to the UN MARPOL convention on ship-source pollution, confirming new global limits on the sulfur content of marine fuels.

Part of this climate impasse relates to the early stages of human recognition that our growth-centered economic norms are butting up against some global limits — a point made in Naomi Klein's potent new piece on "Capitalism vs. the Climate" in The Nation.

We have taken exchange and specialization to the global limit, with systems of finance and governance so complex that they are difficult to manage.

But many observers say such bilateral deals also risk seriously weakening any Copenhagen agreement by allowing the idea of a global limit on greenhouse gas emissions to be abandoned.

In his one previous appearance in the knock-out stages of a global limited-overs tournament – the 2012 World T20 held in Sri Lanka, where spinners were of crucial importance on turning pitches – Doherty struggled badly.

A global limit on emissions, they argue, would interfere with that.

For a global limit on greenhouse emissions, Purvis imagines, the final domestic bill coming out of Congress might include something he calls "Climate Protection Authority".