Sentence examples for not internationally binding from inspiring English sources

China is standing by targets it announced before Copenhagen, but previous climate change treaties say targets of developing countries are not internationally binding, said Pan Jiahua, an economics professor who advises the Chinese negotiating team.

These targets were agreed at the Copenhagen summit of 2009, and the Cancún meeting last year, but they are not internationally legally binding like the way the Kyoto protocol.

Although these targets would not be internationally binding, they would be subject to outside verification.

"Some may fear that commitments that are not internationally legally-binding may lack credibility," he said.

It is not, he said, "internationally binding or subject to international verification".

For most people, protecting the environment starts at their front door, not with an internationally binding global agreement on dangerous climate change.

China and India are among the leaders of the G77 bloc of developing nations, who have consistently argued that they should not be obliged to set internationally binding targets for reducing greenhouse gases because richer nations have a far greater historical responsibility for the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The temporary government will not be able to take any internationally binding decisions, and its sole aim is to lead the country into the new elections.

Technically, much of what Daulaire said is accurate -- the U.S. government has not come out against R&D funding altogether, merely the internationally binding fund being urged by WHO experts.

These settlements were, Cameron insisted, internationally binding treaties with another partner government in the EU and would not be unpicked.

The United States' refusal to make internationally binding its ambitious pollution targets at the Cop21 climate talks in Paris isn't a sign of Barack Obama's lack of political will, but a reflection of the legal limits of his authorities and the political realities of what other nations will commit to doing.