Sentences with phrase «if poor nations»

If the poorer nations are to improve their standard of living does this mean at least slower growth in the richer nations?

And once you open the Pandora's box of geoengineered climate, what do you do if nations disagree about what kind of climate they want, or if some poor nation objects to suffering drought in order to cancel heat waves in Chicago?

If the poorer nations are forced to accelerate the burning of fossil fuels, to feed and house and employ their expanding populations, then their carbon dioxide production will soon dwarf that of the rich industrialized countries.

Not exact matches

The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

If Puerto Rico were a US state — which it is not, and which is part of the problem — its per capita income would be half that of the poorest state in the nation: Mississippi.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you are so against Representative Boehner because of his unjust policies against the nation's poor, then why in God's name are you paying him to speak at your university?

If it is a poor nation, does than mean the people that are poor in your country are lazy?

They argue that justice for the poor is best served if everyone in the developed nations reduces his «carbon footprint» and thus his consumption of energy, which is mostly created from fossil fuels.

And if fuel shortages are a bother for us, they are devastating to the poor countries; the energy crisis is widening the gap between the rich and the poor nations of this world at a terrifying pace.

If Jesus was born in the United States (or any of the ruling nations in the world... Jesus was born in part of the Roman Empire, after all), it would be to a poor prostitute who is living under a cardboard box in a back alley.

«If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus is just as selfish as we are or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition.

If, every five years, the United Nations announces that the number of poor in the world is rising, including in industrialised societies, this is not the result of bad luck but of the deficiencies of a system.

But almost every element of this dynamic of human dissolution has also been aided and abetted by Republican policies, if in different guises: commercial self - interest, disregard for the poor and the survival struggles of economically battered workers, lack of interest in environmental self - discipline and generational concern for the future, disrespect for the Nations.

This vision, if taken seriously in this country, for example, would lead to more emphasis upon a positive strategy to overcome the growing gap between the rich nations and the poor and less on the dominant negative strategy of containing the enemy by filling him with fear of our power to destroy him.

If you agree that environmental deterioration is important, that net international capital is a significant consideration, and that a nation is better off economically when the gap between the rich and the poor is narrowed, then our figures will be useful to you in evaluating how much correlation there is between changes in per capita GNP and economic welfare.

If anything its time to get back to basics, as last time I checked even the homeless live much better here than many poorer nations.

if people want to quote the Bible proverbs says when a nation shuts its ears to the poor God will shut his ears in that nations time of need.

If we are a «Christian Nation» as the Right insists, then why do they have a problem with government helping, the poor and those without healthcare.

If this is going to be a christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we are going to have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it» — Steven Colbert

«If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.»

You don't get 104 caps playing for a nation like Germany if you're rubbish, yet Mertesacker has been poor for us.

There is an argument that such barriers are legitimate in that poorer nations can not afford the higher prices which would arise if there were a uniform world price.

Instead, the Pakistan which remained tried to carry on, pretending that it was still the land of South Asia's Muslims, just smaller... It never figured out why it should exist as a nation - state, and that combined with poor governance and major geostrategic factors have brought the country to a pass where its further dissolution is now argued increasingly in terms of when and how, not if.

Obasanjo faulted the lack of focus and capability of the nation's leadership to handle the complex issue of the economy, noting that if Nigeria must get it right in its democratic journey, the problem of poor leadership must be resolved.

That would certainly skew the premise that rich nations are less religious than poor nations, even if the oil nations derive wealth from natural resources and not industry.

«There is going to be severe ahonkyere [suffering] in 2018» he predicted, adding Ghana will be joining the unenviable group of highly indebted poor nations by 2019 if the current debt profile of the current government should continue.

If you just take the world's 73 poorest nations — those that my organisation, the GAVI Alliance, supports, and where disease risks are highest — this 2030 figure is still only forecast to be about 70 per cent.

If the rich nations continue to grow in income and the poor ones systematically narrow the income gap with successful development, by 2050 the global economy might increase sixfold and global energy use roughly fourfold.

The best strains we have for a H1N1 swine flu vaccine grow only as half as fast as ordinary vaccine viruses, meaning poorer nations may not get it in time if there is a second wave

Due to the poor health infrastructure in the affected West African nations it is unlikely that, if other survivors have been affected in a similar manner, they will have received the same level of care Ms Cafferkey has.

Even if we overlooked the shortcomings of testing as a measure of learning, a single - minded focus on reading and math would not be a cure for what ails children in the nation's poorest - performing schools.

The highest scoring nations of the world would appear to be mediocre or poor performers if judged by the NAEP proficient standard.

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

David had the poor judgment to agree to speak with me about writing (no doubt because I lied about being with the NY Times) and his new breakthrough bestselling blockbuster Vaccine Nation, in which he tells a gripping and chilling story I would have gladly plagiarized if he'd have only sent me an advance copy.

On paper, political accord was reached after rancorous fights between rich and poor nations and emerging powers that, in the end, almost all agreed to recognize, if not yet adopt, a nonbinding plan to curb greenhouse gases, save rain forests, shield vulnerable people and share the costs.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

Cutthroat competition between nations has deadlocked U.N. climate negotiations for decades: rich countries dig in their heels and declare that they won't cut emissions and risk losing their vaulted position in the global hierarchy; poorer countries declare that they won't give up their right to pollute as much as rich countries did on their way to wealth, even if that means deepening a disaster that hurts the poor most of all.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, «I think the great thing about the Commonwealth conference is that we could find nations that were rich and poor, nations that were facing directly now climate change and nations who were debating it but hadn't felt the full impact of it, all coming together to agree something that, you know, if a third of the world can agree at the Commonwealth conference, then perhaps the whole of the world can agree at Copenhagen.»

«If the United Nations and fellow climate alarmists get their way on restricting carbon dioxide, the poor will soon be getting poorer — much, much poorer — especially in places such as Africa, Latin America, and large swaths of Asia,» The New American's Alex Newman reported in a 2013 article entitled UN Carbon Regime Would Devastate Humanity,

Mal T would introduce an ETS if he thought he could get away with it and has said as much, and the Government has sold out to the UN giving them a Billion dollars that poorer south pacific nations could be using to better effect.

And, if such a graduated fee scale were introduced, should it be so structured that extremely poor regions (and individuals) pay a «negative: fee, i.e. receive a breathing rebate, which is paid by the wealthier nations (and individuals)?

Such a framing ignores that it is tens of millions of poor people around the world who will be most harmed by climate change if high - emitting nations fail to reduce their emissions to their fair share 0f safe global emissions.

If each nation had to reduce their ghg emissions only to conform to the rates described in the reduction curves in the above chart despite their steepness, it would lead to grossly unfair results because of great differences among countries in per capita and historical emissions levels and urgent needs to increase energy consumption to escape grinding poverty in poor developing countries.

If you argue that high costs to a nation of reducing its ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global ghg emissions justify non-action, how have you considered the increased harms and risks to poor vulnerable people and nations that will continue to grow as atmospheric ghg concentrations continue to rise?

However, if high - emitting nations take the «equity» and «fairness» requirement seriously, they will need to not only reduce ghg emissions at very, very rapid rates, a conclusion that follows from the steepness of the remaining budget curves alone, but also they will have to reduce their ghg emissions much faster than poor developing nations and faster than the global reductions curves entailed only by the need to stay within a carbon budget.

If some consideration for historical responsibility is not taken into account in allocating national responsibility for ghg emissions reductions, then those poor nations which have done very little to create the current threat of climate change will be required to shoulder a greater burden of needed global ghg emissions obligations than would be required of them if responsibility for the existing problem is not taken into accounIf some consideration for historical responsibility is not taken into account in allocating national responsibility for ghg emissions reductions, then those poor nations which have done very little to create the current threat of climate change will be required to shoulder a greater burden of needed global ghg emissions obligations than would be required of them if responsibility for the existing problem is not taken into accounif responsibility for the existing problem is not taken into account.

If (when) they become available, they're unlikely to be affordable by the poorest nations.

For instance, if the the US not only has economic interests in the climate change policies in political debate but also obligations and duties to poor vulnerable nations to not cause them great harm from US ghg emissions, the United States may not justify failure to act to reduce its ghg emissions on the basis of economic cost to the US.

If the United States is a very large emitter of gigs compared to most other nations in terms of historical and per capita emissions, why doesn't the United States have an ethical duty to fund reasonable climate change adaptation measures in and losses and damages of poor developing countries that have done little or nothing to cause human - induced warming.