binding agreement

基本解释

But she said a legally binding agreement could take up to a year.
但是她说，达成具有法律约束力的协定需要一年时间。
For the first time in history, a nation would seriously consider accepting a binding agreement not to extract fossil fuels.
人类历史上第一次有一个国家考虑接受一个有约束力的协议，不去开采化石燃料。
It is now more likely that President Obama will go because he will not be forced to sign a legally binding agreement which the US Senate could reject.
现在来看，奥巴马总统比以往更有可能参加峰会，因为他不会被迫签署一份可能被美国参议院否决的具有法律约束力的协议。

The goal was to reach a legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for heating up the atmosphere.
The Copenhagen conference was to come up with a binding agreement to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which mandated emissions cuts, but was not signed by some of the world's biggest polluters, including the United States.
"What we hear is that the kind of legally binding agreement that we,for instance, did inside the European Union, will probably not be possible since some of the countries like the United States say we do not have the support in our congress to make a ratification on an international agreement,".

The world's only binding agreement to curb emissions has been a colossal failure.
ECONOMIST: Climate-change talks