Sentences with phrase «most developed countries see»

Most developed countries see carbon markets as crucial under any new agreement because they seek out the cheapest emissions reductions, making climate change targets more achievable.

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As a small country, Denmark rates much better than most developed nations in this regard, but it too is seeing an erosion in that trust, Nørretranders says.

Atheism is already a considerable percentage of most developed countries and it has seen a steady increase in the United States (Up over 8 % from 1990).

However, present times are quite different, as irreligion seems greater than ever in most of the developed countries (also see atheism demographics in Europe).

«In many of the specifics of the way people view climate change — for instance, seeing it as a moral issue and understanding that climate change is going to hurt people in developing countries and the world's poor the most — we saw really large shifts.»

Conversely, foreign postdocs often see the highly competitive U.S. marketplace as providing far more opportunities for advancement than those of their home countries, causing many of the most talented and ambitious to stay in the United States, thus weakening research efforts in both developed and developing nations.

He notes, as do the authors, that those pest groups seen moving towards the equator — largely nematode worms and viruses are the most poorly understood, and therefore the ones most likely to be discovered later in developing countries.

Most developed countries have seen labor participation in agriculture decline rapidly in the past 100 years, says Eldert van Henten, a professor of agricultural science and head of the Farm Technology Group at Wageningen University and Research Center in the Netherlands.

Worldwide, lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer.1 In the United Kingdom, its annual incidence is second only to that of breast cancer, accounting for around 39000 new cancer diagnoses annually.2 In countries that have seen a high prevalence of smoking, around 90 % of diagnoses of lung cancer are attributable to cigarette smoking.3 The increased incidence from smoking is proportional to the length and intensity of smoking history.4 On average, a lifetime smoker has a 20-fold increase in the risk of developing lung cancer compared with a lifetime non - smoker.1 Lung cancer is more common in men than in women, closely following past patterns of smoking prevalence, and 80 % of cases are diagnosed in people aged over 60.2

Yet of all developed countries, Australia is set to feel impacts of climate change earlier than most, and arguably is seeing them already in the recent severe droughts.

Countries (or national subdivisions) that lead the PISA, including Singapore, Shanghai, Canada, Finland, South Korea, and Japan, very broadly share a model one could see as the inverse of ours: they draw teachers from among their most talented people, prepare them extensively and with close attention to practice, put them in schools buffered from some of the effects of poverty by social welfare supports, and give them time while in school to collaborate to develop and improve their skills.

But to anyone living in developing country where most dogs and cats are not vaccinated or to anyone unlucky enough to see an outbreak, the issue is a no brainer.

Also, while poor nations see the amounts as insufficient, powerful countries, including China (which long hid behind its status as a developing country), have pledged money and technical aid to help shield the world's most vulnerable communities from climatic and coastal hazards.

The problem as I see it is that there are many more pressing needs in most developing countries: water and sanitation, (which are probably the foremost welfare sectors); and infrastructure for primary education and highway building, (which are probably the highest public - sector income - generating investments).

To which Richter responded he didn't see how these solutions are easily applicable in developing countries, where most growth in energy demand is going to occur in the future.

Because none of the developed countries were willing to make emissions reduction commitments congruent with what scientific community said was necessary to protect them, some of the most vulnerable developing countries saw the developed countries» positions in Copenhagen as ominous, perhaps a death sentence.

Ranping Song, developing countries climate action manager for the World Resources Institute, said because the revisions began occurring late last winter, they are not likely to endanger the Paris talks — which are increasingly seen as among the most promising climate talks to date.

GENE SPERLING, Natl. Economic Adviser, 1997 - 2001: Developing country leaders uniformly saw the effort to put a binding climate change regime on them as an effort by the United States, the most advanced, productive economy in the world, to now stunt their growth before they could even have a chance to catch up.

Developing countries are the most likely supplier of emissions units, though it remains to be seen what new market mechanisms will be defined after the conclusion of the Kyoto Protocol.

But there is little chance that what the developing countries would most like to see — new concessional financing for adaptation and mitigation that is and provided from the national budgets of the wealthy nations — will be forthcoming.

Foreign Companies Deny Culpability At a time when many Chinese see the developed world's pressure on China as hypocritical — rich countries are liable for most of the world's greenhouse gases (and to some extent, China's, too), goes the argument — pollution violations by multinationals only add insult to injury.

However, I see outsourcing becoming more prevalent, already in IP domain I'm seeing India companies offering to do patent searches and even trademark management (with most developed countries highly automated).