The fraudulence of the Copenhagen approach – "goals" for emission reductions, "offsets" that render ironclad goals almost meaningless, the ineffectual "cap-and-trade" mechanism – must be exposed.
Countries sought to meet after recognizing that the faster movement of people by rail and ship was facilitating the spread of disease and that uncoordinated, sometimes ineffectual, national quarantine policies interrupted trade and were causing discontent among merchants (82).
In an open letter delivered on 29 December 2008 to then President-Elect Obama and his wife, Hansen and wife Anniek described cap-and-trade schemes as "ineffectual and not commensurate with the climate threat".
Regulators in Beijing are promising to step up safety checks, a huge task considering China's large and growing trade volumes, and its limited and often ineffectual corps of police officers and inspectors.
Moreover, argues William Gumede, author of a book on Mr Mbeki and the ANC, these ineffectual reactions to Mr Zuma's fall show that the ANC's trade union and communist allies have lost influence.
Many have long argued that Asia's institutional architecture falls short, with a mess of competing structures that include the big if ineffectual APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation, a talk-shop on trade), ASEAN, ASEAN+3 (ie, plus Japan, China and South Korea) and the newish and still wobbly East Asia Summit (EAS, made up of ASEAN+3, India, Australia and New Zealand).
Trump traded up when he hired John Kelly to replace the ineffectual Priebus as chief of staff and H. R. McMaster to succeed Flynn at the helm of the National Security Council.
And yet many Colombian labor leaders deride the plan as ineffectual and ultimately unenforceable, noting that it isn't tied directly to the trade agreement.
Even when the Mets stunned their fans and the rest of the baseball world with their 1969 World Series championship, they then fumbled around, first trading away a future All-Star center fielder in Amos Otis and receiving the ineffectual Joe Foy in return, and then dealing a young Nolan Ryan Nolan Ryanan! — for a declining Jim Fregosi.
Mozambique would be poorer if its people could not work and trade in South Africa.One of Mr Mbeki's closest aides, Essop Pahad, predicts that the current ineffectual restrictions on the free movement of labour will eventually fall away.
Mahmoud's defense is disarmingly ludicrous; he can't be trading on his brother's position, he says, because his brother's regime is so ineffectual.
