Sentence examples for historic responsibility from inspiring English sources

At the UN climate change summit in New York on Tuesday, Javadekar is reported to have said: "The moral principle of historic responsibility [those countries which have historically emitted the most] cannot be washed away".

"Europe faces a historic responsibility".

Germany's historic responsibility is at odds with present-day reality.

He has a historic responsibility over whether this part of central Europe is divided or united.

But while he champions historic responsibility abroad, he's an instrument of eroding historic justice at home.

Bolivia demanded emissions be cut in line with each country's historic responsibility for climate change.

But realistically it feels to me that there was a kind of historic responsibility.

Fighting global warming, he said July 7, is the "historic responsibility" of developed countries.

"This is a historic responsibility," he said with the flags of France and Europe behind him.

"Now is the time to test their sense of historic responsibility," says one father, of the country's incoming leaders.

So let's take a look at this year's nominees to see whether they live up to their historic responsibility.