Sentence examples for mandatory emission cuts from inspiring English sources

But in recent weeks he has taken heat from some environmental activists for statements on the stump implying that he might not seek mandatory emission cuts.

Nevertheless, it is reasonable to speculate that a considerable leakage may occur given that more than a third of Australia's imports are sourced from developing countries in Asia which do not face mandatory emission cuts.

Climate activists hope the initiative will have the political clout to help sway President George W. Bush's administration towards mandatory emissions cuts.

In addition, most of the 12,000 delegates at Bali expect major changes in the US position after next year's presidential election, since most leading candidates have declared their support for mandatory emissions cuts.

The United Nations climate chief, Yvo de Boer, while acknowledging India's resistance to mandatory emissions cuts as "a fair position," said on a recent visit that the ball was in India's court to offer alternatives.

Further, we need money on the table to have a chance of international negotiations in Copenhagen in December delivering what the planet needs – enforceable protection for the world's forests, financial assistance for developing nations to adapt to a low carbon economy in a shifting climate, and deep, rapid, and most of all mandatory emissions cuts.

President Obama decided that the only way to bring the US in line was to have the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, draft and then impose mandatory emissions cuts after the failure of his earlier attempt to persuade Congress to pass a sweeping cap-and-trade law that would have sought to achieve the same aim by encouraging states to cut emissions by buying and selling pollution credits.

This has raised expectations that China might make a commitment to mandatory emissions cuts.

BASIC countries in the past argued that they should not be asked to make mandatory emissions cuts because it was now their turn to speed up development works and tackle poverty.

Or they could drop all mention of targets to keep Washington in the negotiations – and risk of the United States fatally obstructing the process of coming up with a tough regime of mandatory emissions cuts that would have to be in place by the UN's climate meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Previous global climate negotiations have all failed to set mandatory carbon emission cuts even as global emissions have climbed inexorably.