He offered far reaching Chinese commitments to reduce carbon emissions, and also provided necessary political momentum to finalize the difficult international negotiations.
But clearly, dialogue and negotiation between representative social partners matters to reach shared commitments, and kept commitments increase trust16.
"The most important thing is that they met and they talked and they reached some commitments," the diplomat said.
This gathering of 21 regional leaders to discuss climate change, trade liberalisation and closer business ties (without obligation to reach binding commitments on any of them) is the most powerful international assembly ever to convene in the country.
In fact, they form one of the three legs of President Obama's plans to reach the commitments he made for greenhouse gas reductions by 2030.
Yet alliance members, he noted, were far from reaching their spending commitments, with only 5 of 28 having reached the established target: 2 percent of gross domestic product for defense.
The company says it is the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable power, with commitments reaching 2.6 gigawatts (2,600 megawatts) of wind and solar energy.
The ribozyme forms much of its tertiary structure significantly faster than it reaches this commitment point and the tertiary structure is expected to be stable, suggesting that the commitment to fold along pathways to the native or misfolded states is made from a partially structured intermediate.
For Sainsburys, eCO2 will also help it reach its commitment to cut its CO2 emissions by 30% by 2020 (pdf).
As part of a separate court settlement with the federal agency, the city has reached a commitment to build a $600 million filtration plant for its other major line of reservoirs, the Croton system, farther to the east.
These far-reaching commitments are a reason that the F.D.I.C. model of rapid shutdowns cannot be applied so easily here.
