The statement, posted by the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, urged the Group of 8 countries to move beyond last year's pledge to consider halving global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and "make maximum efforts" to reach this target.
In Tokyo, a Japan foreign ministry spokesman said it would, with other countries, make maximum efforts to free the two Japanese if they were in fact being held hostage, a foreign ministry spokesman said by telephone, but he made no comment on the ransom demand, according to Reuters.
Ratifying nations are required to make maximum efforts to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions via their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
"We hope that both the U.K. and EU governments will continue to make maximum efforts to reach a satisfactory settlement and that a 'withdrawal without agreement' is avoided at all costs," Toyoda said in a statement.
But Representative Jane Harman of California, the top Democrat on the House committee, issued a statement last week saying that the decision by Mr. Negroponte "would be heartbreaking" for Boeing workers in her home district, "who have made maximum effort to build a hugely complex system".
Nevertheless, he remains hopeful, telling Creators he sincerely believes the performance will take place next year as "the dancers and staff of the theater have made maximum effort for that to happen".
The Dalai Lama said Sunday that India had made "maximum" efforts as host, but it faced certain limitations in allowing political activity by Tibetans.
Others, with far more insight and who acknowledge our increased dependence on ever-more-finite supplies of oil, know that the U.S. should make maximum diplomatic efforts to secure some part of these huge and vital oil re-sources for the freedom-loving countries of the world.
While this does not cheapen Obama's Nowruz message and other groundbreaking facets of his initial outreach, it does raise three important questions: How can U.S. policymakers give maximum effort to make diplomacy succeed if they admittedly never believed their efforts could work?
Although we do not have enough satellite data, we should make a maximum effort to study these EQs.
