Sentences with phrase «because rich countries»

It stagnated because the rich countries were unwilling to either reduce their own emissions significantly or pledge meaningful funding to help poor nations transition to greener economies.

This directly contradicts your claim that people are only against chemical weapons because rich countries with fancy conventional weapons want them to be.

Donor respondents overwhelmingly rejected the notion that the poor countries were poor because the rich countries were rich.

Not exact matches

Global investor Barry Sternlicht warns Trump: US needs Chinese investment because «we're not a rich country»

Many residents of Norway politely declined, according to Reuters, likely because «the Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet.»

Rosling encourages people to use this framework, rather than use labels like «developed» and «developing,» because, as Gates explains, «It's hard to pick up on progress if you divide the world into rich countries and poor countries.

Investors could decide to ditch investments in the developing world both because higher rates in rich countries would make those investments comparatively less attractive and because their appetite for risk would likely drop in case of a U.S. default.

But the round has stumbled repeatedly since its inception in Qatar's capital, largely because of wrangling between rich and poor countries over eliminating barriers to farm trade.

There are so many reasons why this is wrong (to list just the most obvious, poor countries have much lower debt thresholds than rich countries, Japanese debt can not possibly be dismissed as not being a problem, and because it is almost impossible to find an economist who understands the relationship between nominal interest rates and implicit amortization, Japanese government debt has probably only been manageable to date because GDP growth close to zero has permitted interest rates close to zero) and yet inane comparisons between China's debt burden and Japan's debt burden are made all the time.

It was great for Nexen shareholders, but CNOOC received a lot of negative sentiment from Canadians because it's a State Owned Enterprise, which gives it an unfair market advantage over other energy companies because it's financially and politically backed by one of the richest countries in the world.

Economic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country recessions).

I'd like to have a president who doesn't keep his money in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.I'd like to have a president who knows more people are on food stamps today because tax cuts for the rich did not create jobs and caused this country to go down the drain.

Many Americans assume that because we are the richest country in the world, with real G.D.P per capita higher than that of other major advanced countries, Americans must be better off across the board - that it's not just our rich who are richer than their counterparts abroad, but that the typical American family is much better off than the typical family elsewhere, and that even our poor are well off by foreign standards.

Why not do it because we're a rich country and we can afford to bless them when they're children?

Our country remained as one of the poorest countries for very long because the Cap, told us that our oil was not in a com - mer - cial qua - nti - ties, it was like that until the Com, have become to find it was not as the Cap, told us, who must have been br - i - bed to say so by a richer neighboring country...

Our country remained as one of the poorest countries for very long because the Capit - a-lists, told us that our oil was not in a com - mer - cial qua - nti - ties, it was like that until the Com - mun - ists have become to find it was not as the Capit - a-lists, told us, who must have been br - i - bed to say so by a richer neighboring country....

This McDonald and Mobile phone culture has already spread among the new - rich in many developing countries because of the globalization of markets.

In developing countries, outcomes are sometimes worse in kids that breastfeed for longer, probably in part because this might be occurring in poorer families with other challenges, but having breast milk displace other foods, such as those rich in iron, is probably part of the picture.

Their letters provide a rich insight into their experiences of migration over 150 years: they're delighted by easy access to the labour market and higher salaries, for example, but also talk about the uncertainty of succeeding in the host country because of job insecurity and higher living costs.

For other Europeans, the UK serves to illustrate the inequality effect, and what happens when the laws of a country are changed in favour of the affluent because they have become so rich that they can effectively buy the interest of political parties — often through obtaining media support — and hence politicians, and then, by getting the laws they want, they control the judiciary.

«Historically, coffee has been exploited by the West in various ways, because it's consumed in rich countries, and grown in poor ones,» said Alexander Myers, a KU doctoral candidate in sociology.

On June 30, following on work published in the scientific journal Nature by STRI post-doctoral fellow, Scott Mangan, a group of 50 researchers from 12 countries published a paper in Science (lead author, Joe LaManna, Washington University in St. Louis) showing that close plant relatives make bad neighbors and that the negative interactions between relatives are stronger in the tropics, which may explain why tropical forests are so rich in species diversity: Because plants do not do well next to their relatives, there is more space for non-relatives to fill.

Known by many as «the land of smiles», not only because visitors love its natural beauty and historical riches, but also because of the country's friendly people and gentle way of life.Thailand replenishes the yogi and the adventurer in you with the most beautiful beaches, picturesque hiking trails, and vast viewpoints.

Young women in developing countries are fast adopting sugar dating because they are drawn to rich and glamorous lifestyle and the power that comes with it.

Single Russian Girls seeking rich American guys is because they want to immigrate to this country.

Because the United States is a relatively rich country, many among the 21 percent of school - age children living below the national poverty line are not counted in the low - income bracket by OECD standards, hence the OECD's seemingly low figure of 13 percent.)

The culture here is richer because we have never confined the idea of British art to those who have been born in this country.

The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the gulf is an MTV moment... Because it is on the doorstep of the richest country in the world, the worlds media spotlight is on the area.

Some of developing countries insist the US pay them not to spew CO2, because we are «rich».

But if rich nations all agree that capping emissions in developing countries is not yet expected because they haven't reached our level of emissions, doesn't that null and void the whole point of cutting emissions?

Cornell and the USDA have already built such a model for some traits in corn; because people in rich countries eat corn, there's a big market for better varieties.

As countries get richer, they start replanting their forests — but this is not a big environmental gain because they «export» the deforestation to poor countries

A global median of 54 % say that rich countries such as the U.S., Japan and Germany should do more than developing countries to address global warming, because they have produced most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions so far.

First, climate change creates duties because those most responsible for causing this problem are the richer developed countries, yet those who are most vulnerable to the problem's harshest impacts are some of the world's poorest people in developing countries.

First, climate change creates duties, responsibilities, and obligations because those most responsible for causing this problem are the richer developed countries or rich people in developed and developing countries, yet those who are most vulnerable to the problem's harshest impacts are some of the world's poorest people around the world.

Rich countries already refine and update their methane inventories using such methods, but most developing ones do not, partly because UN guidelines are so lax as to be meaningless.

That sounds good until you realize that it means that 210 times as many people in poorer countries might die needlessly as a result — because the resources that could have saved them were spent on windmills, solar panels, biofuels, and other rich - world fixations.

Yes, those of us in rich countries have a lot of opportunity to reduce our energy use, but I actually think rising per capita energy use, at least in the short term, is a good thing overall because so many people live on so little energy now.

The talks proved difficult because of divisions between rich and poor countries over how to spread the burden of pledges to cut carbon emissions.

Because the process it lays out — in which individual countries make emissions commitments and then reconvene every five years to measure progress and rich countries pledge $ 100 billion in aid to poorer countries — taps into a few forces that can be almost as powerful as the threat of punishment.

First, climate change creates duties, responsibilities, and obligations because those most responsible for causing this problem are the richer developed countries or rich people in developed and developing countries, yet those who are most vulnerable to the problem's harshest impacts are some of the world's poorest people.

But those nations say rich countries should take the lead on emissions cuts because they've pumped carbon into the atmosphere for longer.

With emissions trading, the net cost to the world would be much smaller, but Lomborg says this is politically infeasible because it would require big transfers from rich to poor countries.

Even development assistance from the rich countries to the poor ones is jeopardized because development of the poor countries will inevitably lead both to great increases in their demand for energy, and perhaps even worse, in their ability to compete with the present industrialized countries to acquire fuels in the international markets.

Richer countries don't commit real resources to mitigation in poorer countries partly because they are not confident that their resources would be well used; poorer countries don't anticipate resources so don't implement ambitious effective policies.

In other words, improving FF use has NEVER resulted in a lower consumption at a world scale, although it has some times for the richest countries where all basic needs were fulfilled, because they are always enough poor people who need to use them more.

Thinking back on my own decade long involvement in the «Brussel Spouts» movement, I get the warm fuzzies from all the rich memories it provides, not least because it yielded my teenage girlfriend, (unlike in the US, many countries long ago embraced mixed gender scouting) but also because it got me into the wild doing fun stuff; learning how not to pitch a tent, burning good food, falling out of canoes, toasting mashmallows under a star - studded skies, etc..

Many commentators argue that focusing on where emissions are produced is unfair, because much of the carbon output of countries such as China are generated as a result of producing goods that are ultimately consumed in richer nations.

The richer countries in Europe were already moving their chicken indoors but that was not because of the cold & BTW the cull has nothing to do with the drop?

It's tropical now because it's the rich countries that were able to eradicate it.»