“Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something.”
President Barack Obama criticises North Korea’s rocket launch, claiming it violates UN resolutions. He also announced plans for a summit aimed at global reductions in nuclear weapons (The Wall Street Journal, 6 April)
“Why would small island states be happy with a level of ambition that is going to destroy their countries?”
M. J. Mace, a legal adviser to the Federated States of Micronesia, explains why it and 42 other island states requested that developed countries aim to cut their emissions far beyond current goals (Reuters, 6 April)…
