Even though oil is not mentioned in the "U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change," coordinating the two countries' oil policies, including in the evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions, unconventional oils and managing the consumption of its by-product of petroleum coke, requires institutionalizing cooperation and communication between the United States and China.
It is expected that the newly formed MBDS Foundation, in addition to solidifying and institutionalizing cooperation, will serve as the network's financial arm by mobilizing resources from different funding agencies, including from governments of member countries.
South-South cooperation was never institutionalized around biodiversity before – that's the symbolism of India's pledge.
To put it another way, is it really the case that economic cooperation through trade even institutionalized in order to solve coordination problems is ever enough to invoke norms of distributive justice if there is no chance that that economic cooperation, no matter how unequally distributed, will undermine the possibility of the participants to live decent lives?
Here the relation of theory to practice is a different one than among the original pragmatists: more than simply clarifying the relation of means and ends for decisions on particular issues, these social sciences demand reflection upon institutionalized practices and their norms of cooperation.
Interfaith cooperation is growing and becoming institutionalized and more savvy, however imperfectly.
This situation is different in Switzerland, where integrated energy and spatial planning has still been highly institutionalized during the past several years, which clearly facilitates the cooperation between planning authorities on the municipality, federal ("Kanton") and national scale.
Furthermore, the result that cooperation concerning ICT in communities of practice in teaching has a positive effect on students' CIL might also be interpreted differently: in schools where students have high levels of CIL, there would seem to be a higher recognition of the need for teachers to cooperate in a more institutionalized and formal way.
Engagement must also mean institutionalizing U.S.- Chinese cooperation.
UNICEF has endorsed the Global Humanitarian Platform GHPprinciplesles,5 which are being institutionalized across UNICEF and addressed in a variety of processes, including cluster leadership functions, the NGO-UNICEF Project Cooperation Agreement (PCA) framework, emergency and preparedness response training and the revision of UNICEF's Core Commitments for Children in Emergencies, among others.
