international agreement

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MCCPs are now being evaluated for possible regulation under the Stockholm Convention, an international agreement aimed at protecting human health from persistent and widespread chemicals.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2026

The rules are intended to implement an international agreement known as Basel III, reached after the 2008 financial crisis to ensure banks worldwide maintain adequate buffers.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The relevant statute allows only tariffs that “deal with large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits,” “prevent an imminent and significant deprecation of the dollar,” or facilitate an international agreement to correct a “balance-of-payments disequilibrium.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

We need an international agreement like the Antarctic Treaty that prevents countries and corporations from launching satellites into low Earth orbit for nonscientific purposes and prohibits commercial resource extraction of any kind.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2025

It seemed to Oppenheimer that the opportunity to keep atomic weapons under control via international agreement was slipping away, perhaps never to be recovered.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik