Inadequate enforcement mechanisms and overly ambitious targets are among the reasons for failure.

First, clarity is needed on ambitious, legally binding emission reduction targets for industrialized countries.

But the bill that finally emerges from Congress is likely to have less ambitious targets.

Europe is pushing for ambitious targets but is having trouble with its own vested interests.

China is setting ambitious targets for reducing energy intensity and making massive investments in renewable energy.

The plan was to convene world leaders in Copenhagen and renew vows to cut carbon while committing to even more ambitious targets.

Five years ago, in this very Hall, the assembled world leaders adopted an ambitious set of targets and goals to promote peace and prosperity.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals set ambitious targets for lowering poverty, improving health and nutrition, expanding education, increasing gender equality, and ensuring environmental sustainability.

Some participants were concerned that in the rush to achieve ambitious development targets, Governments might ignore the vital principle of free, prior and informed consent.

Linking actions directly to the needs derived from ambitious and monitorable targets would mean a breakthrough towards greater boldness and accountability in the fight against poverty.

In middle income countries and others where the goals are already within reach, Governments should adopt a Millennium Development Goals plus strategy, with more ambitious targets.

In middle income countries and others where the Goals are already within reach, Governments should adopt a Millennium Development Goals plus strategy, with more ambitious targets.

It has set itself ambitious targets for the future and is taking the lead in seeking a comprehensive global agreement, including a very significant effort on funding.

The assembled countries will consider how to raise the resources necessary to achieve the ambitious Aichi Biodiversity Targets, adopted two years ago at the last such meeting in Japan.

The last thing a crisis weary Europe needs is a new competitiveness gap. But ambitious climate targets, as Germany and other successful European economies have shown, are not the problem.

But with deliverable aid levels remaining practically constant, and given strong population growth, notably in Africa, the international community has not given itself sufficient means to reach its ambitious targets.

Barroso calls the agreement historic, Tony Blair extols its groundbreaking, bold, ambitious targets, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel even ventured that the promises can avoid what could well be a human calamity.

In 2005, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) Joint Transport Research Committee launched a working group project to achieve ambitious road safety targets.

China s move from imitation to innovation has been a matter of national policy in recent years. In 2011, for example, the government established a set of ambitious targets for the production of patents.

And in Thailand, market mechanisms, backed by ambitious targets, are helping the country produce businesses that are regional leaders in waste recycling, including operations now in Laos and Malaysia, while generating thousands of jobs.

Europe s Ambitious Muddling Through

This implies the end of the Kyoto Protocol model, which, like the Doha model, is based on a detailed agenda, established according to specific and ambitious targets, with all relevant actors then compelled to negotiate each topic.

This recommendation may not sound revolutionary, but by linking actions directly to the needs derived from ambitious and monitorable targets, its implementation would mark a fundamental breakthrough towards greater boldness and accountability in the fight against poverty.

If they are to convince developing countries that the 2050 goal is credible, they must be both ambitious and realistic about the domestic political challenges they face in adopting and implementing demanding targets for 2020, 2030, and 2040.

The International Action Programme from the 2004 International Conference for Renewable Energies (Bonn, Germany) contains ambitious national targets for the expansion of renewable energy in more than 20 countries, including many initiatives for increased cooperation with developing countries.

At the start of the third millennium, Ban s predecessor, Kofi Annan, brought the world s leaders together to adopt the Millennium Development Goals, which established ambitious targets to be achieved in the fight against poverty, hunger, and disease by 2015.

Targets

These ambitious targets ranging from halving extreme poverty and reducing maternal mortality by three quarters to achieving universal primary schooling and halting (and beginning to reverse) the spread of HIV AIDS are supposed to be met by the end of 2015.

Right now, the contributions from each country will not usher in a safe world, but this agreement would force countries to come back to the table every five years to review their emissions reduction targets and make new, more ambitious cuts.

We can remain both ambitious and realistic.

Then some of us became more ambitious.

But even more ambitious action is needed.

The endeavor was bound to be ambitious.

This Plenary Meeting has an ambitious agenda.

Some participants identified the following potential targets (or elements for targets)

Nuclear Targets

Funding targets

Bird was an ambitious and very capable student.

We would have liked a more ambitious result.

And we have ambitious hopes for its future.

Beyond Inflation Targets

Smart Development Targets

International development targets

Objective and targets

This would leave the EU no choice but to change its internal plans, undermining its ability to stay on track to meet emissions reduction aspirations for 2050 and diminishing member states willingness to agree to ambitious and legally binding climate and energy targets for 2030.