Commentary
Signed bits of paper abound at international conferences. Serious-looking leaders signing their names to documents that would never pass the examination of a first-year law student abound.
Statements of intent, flowing phrases, and wonderful words, which at the end of the day are neither enforceable nor meaningful, tend to go from headline to dustbin with great rapidity.
Time will tell if it will be any different with the activity on the sidelines of the G-7 in Hiroshima, which saw the signing by U.S. President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of a document entitled “Climate, Critical Minerals, and Clean Energy Transformation Compact” (the Compact)….