"historical contributions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are discussing contributions that have been made in the past. For example: "Throughout history, many individuals have made important contributions to society."
It also got rid of references to historical contributions, which show that rich countries bear a disproportionate responsibility.
One reason this is so difficult is the dispute over the concept of "common but differentiated responsibility" – which means each country's action reflecting its historical contributions to raising cumulative levels of greenhouse gases, and also its wealth.
More important, today's coal-based electricity generation is 70 to 90percentt cleaner than the plants that are being replaced — close to eliminating historical contributions to acid rain and smog.
But inquiry and exploration are not the prerogative of advanced capitalist western nations – with the rest of the world eternally condemned to be a footnote in the history of science, even as its historical contributions to knowledge are forgotten.
Over the summer, he said in an interview with the Middle Eastern news network Al-Jazeera that one of NASA's main tasks was to reach out to the Muslim world and help Muslims feel good about their historical contributions to science.
There is still hope for achieving – at the very least – clear foundations for a global deal at Copenhagen which finally brings the US on board and stays true to the principles of Kyoto: binding emissions reduction targets, uniform accounting rules, strong compliance mechanisms and common but differentiated responsibility – recognising different historical contributions to the climate crisis.
In the meantime it may want to update its website, where the section on women in the RCMP first praises their historical contribution "serving as wives".
The second major historical contribution to the theory of generalized quantifiers came from the 'inventor' of modern logic, Gottlob Frege, in the 1870s.
This particular subject has been virtually unaddressed in historiographic studies so far, and Schmitter's paper is a substantial step towards the full appreciation of the historical contribution these early theories of word formation made to the development of the field.
China, on the other hand, has argued that America's historical contribution far outweighs its own and that they instead must be responsible for bearing the brunt of efforts to control carbon emissions.
Estimates of gene flow obtained with Migrate or indirectly using the assignment procedure implemented in Geneclass [76] indicated that such migrations have been low in front of the historical contribution of Eurasian populations.
