The administration seems acutely aware of the need to defend itself from this criticism and has consistently sought to link efforts at cutting emissions at home to winning commitments from China to cut its carbon pollution.
As part of this partnership, the Sierra Club set the ambitious goal of winning commitments to retire 105,000 megawatts of coal -- about one-third of U.S. coal plants -- by 2015.
Mr. Trichet won commitments from governments on another longstanding issue.
Last Monday, American and Iraqi officials said they had won commitments from nine of the militias to disband.
Even when the Obama Administration believes it has won commitments from President Hu on matters of trade and diplomacy, action has been slow to follow.
The German lot now hold three important ministries, including foreign affairs; and they have won commitments to abandon nuclear power and bring in hefty eco-taxes.
Royal Jordanian, the national carrier of Jordan, signed a $500 million order on Tuesday for three Boeing 737-800s, while Airbus won commitments from Hong Kong Airlines and the Chilean carrier LAN Airlines for a total of 60 and0s and 15 wide-body A350 XWBs.
Oracle executives were not surprised by reports that PeopleSoft had stepped up its efforts to win commitments from J. D. Edwards shareholders, but reiterated the company's earlier demand that PeopleSoft let its shareholders vote.
Mr. Cuomo said he was working his way down a list of A.I.G. employees, ranked by the size of their bonuses, and had already won commitments to pay back $50 million out of the total $165 million awarded this month.
American and Iraqi officials said Monday that they had won commitments from nine of the country's largest militias to disband, but there were immediate indications that the agreement might be difficult to enforce.
And it has won commitments from the major UK banks that no bonuses will be paid in the coming year unless the bonus structure has been agreed with the regulator.
