The protocol is generally regarded as one of the most effective environmental pacts.

A European social pact and a social and environmental pact.

In March 2009, the Green Party declared a state of environmental emergency and announced the launching of an "environmental pact".

"Waterkeeper Alliance and Smithfield Foods Reach Agreement on Environmental Pact", January 20, 2006.

Disagreements over issues like the use of land mines and the need to preserve missile treaties, adhere to environmental pacts and set up an international court have not gone away.

Strong resistance from Mexico, Canada and American business stands in the way of the Administration's final push to wrap up labor and environmental pacts linked to the Nafta.

The treaty, one of two major environmental pacts drafted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, calls for the signers, especially the industrialized countries, to move quickly to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.

The Clinton Administration has begun a final push to wrap up labor and environmental pacts linked to the North American Free Trade Agreement but faces strong resistance from Mexico, Canada and American business leaders.

The labor and environmental pacts are intended to prevent countries from helping their corporations in the North American market by failing to enforce domestic laws on minimum wages, toxic waste disposal and other labor and environmental issues.

A North-South "grand bargain" that included environmental pacts, increases in overseas aid from today's pitifully low percentages, the maintenance of open access to the third world's exports and reduction of fuel use and greenhouse emissions is a fundamental requirement.

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They show that while the environmental pact will create a powerful three-nation bureaucracy to pursue a wide array of environmental problems, the labor pact will create a much smaller and tamer apparatus limited in its enforcement powers to a narrow range of specific issues.

The real sign that Canada has completely lost its way is the Canadian government's rejection of a major environmental pact hammered out in Durban, and its insistence on mining dirty CO2 intensive oil shale regardless of pleas to leave it be.

Despite the clashing mosaic of stances, many delegates, from both rich and poor countries, said they had a sense - after more than a decade of meetings leading to the treaty - that agreement could be reached, mainly because a growing number of nations were seeing the deal as an opportunity for economic growth and not simply an environmental pact.