Sentences with phrase «poor nations also»

Poor nations also want a similar provision in place beyond 2020, but there is strong disagreement over how this should be done.

Not exact matches

China's poor crop yields must be increased not just to meet rising demand, but also so that Chinese farmers, the nation's poorest people, can make more money.

Also poor leadership is Gods curse on a nation.

Also ranked near the top were conserving the world's scarce resources and reducing disparities between poor and wealthy nations.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

The population explosion is also changing the economic balances, for it is the nations that are already economically poor, and in many cases saddled with massive international debt, that will bear the burden of feeding between two and three times as many more mouths than they do at present.

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.

, Ronald Dworkin asserts that «the level of indifference the nation now shows to the fate of its poor calls into question not only the justice of its fiscal policies but also their legitimacy.

But Heilbroner also envisages the possibility that tensions between the rich and the poor nations could bring disaster even sooner than ecological attrition.

This concern has also determined distribution of aid among poor nations.

I want to suggest, however, that these horrors are a direct consequence of the idea that development requires poor nations to limit their populations — which also explains, I believe, the pronounced indifference in the West to practices that would provoke outrage were they applied to people in Scarsdale or San Francisco instead of Shanghai and Bombay.

Since nutrient - rich quinoa is also drought resistant, and grows well on poor soils without irrigation or fertilizer, it's been designated a «super crop» by the United Nations, for its potential to feed the hungry poor of the world.

Infrastructure such as cycle lanes is also poor in the UK compared to other European nations and many claim that private gyms remain prohibitively expensive.

Cuomo also says he will cut the cost of the state's Medicaid program for the poor, considered one of the most generous programs in the nation and now serving a quarter of New Yorkers.

But it's also a sign of how much of the developing world is willfully making itself more vulnerable to climate change, even as poor nations ask rich ones to spend hundreds of billions per year on helping them to adapt.

Brazil has also tried to act as a bridge between poor and rich nations that are still at odds over how much each should do to reduce greenhouse emissions.

These nations also tend to be poor, making the task of adapting to sea - level rise even more challenging for them — and potentially existential.

It's also a straightforward explanation for the poor skin and sharply rising melanoma incidence of Western nations (source).

But he is also referring to something much larger: the urgent need to save our nation's poor children.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

The concept of sustainable development is being criticized, in Brazil and in other Latin American countries, since the word development is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

Economic benefit Through the new # 102m Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund, also funded by the Government through Sport England, the Foundation is dedicated to addressing the problem of poor sports facilities across the country to encourage a healthy and active lifestyle in the nation's youth.

The fact that university schools of education do such a poor job of recruiting aspiring teachers for subject - matter competency — and fail to train them properly once they get into their classrooms — also means that children, especially those attending the nation's dropout factories and failure mills, are poorly prepared to handle the even - more complex work that will come once they get into college and the workforce.

It isn't new at all: The Poor - Kids - Can't - Learn argument dates as far back as the Progressive Era of the last century, when another generation of educators declared that blacks and immigrants were also incapable of learning; it gave us the ability tracking and the comprehensive high school model that has helped foster the nation's education crisis.

The CORE districts also couldn't offer a specific plan for how they would provide comprehensive college - preparatory courses aligned to the standards to poor and minority children in their schools, as well as English Language Learners and children trapped in the nation's special education ghettos.

It also is located in one of the poorest counties in the nation but has a lot to offer.

I'll keep this short: whatever attempts and successes developed countries assist in providing to poorer countries, as far as standards of living, I hope, I hope, I hope, that with those improvements we also help these developing nations retain their cultural heritage, celebrate it and NOT AD WALMARTS, STARBUCKS, OPRAH»S FAVORITE THINGS and inevitably more and more and more damn stuff.

Yumei Wang, the geohazards team leader for the state of Oregon, sent me a cautionary note saying it's important to remember that such risks are not confined to poor countries or emerging powers, but also face parts of the United States and other industrialized nations.

The resilience of people also varies, while many richer nations may be able to weather climate change, many poorer nations are already seeing distress in their water and food supplies.

He also pointed out the obligation wealthy nations have to poorer ones that are most vulnerable to coastal and climatic hazards that, in many places, will be worsened by the building greenhouse effect.

I am a strong proponent of controlling pollution, not just CO2 (soot has done much to reduce the ice's albedo) and it is preposterous that China is being given such latitude as a «poor nation» when it's also building skyscrapers by the dozen, nuclear submarines and a space program while effectively employing its youth as feedstock for manufacturing goods subsidized by their government.

We must also energize our efforts to put other developing nations, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, on a path to sustainable growth.

The administration also suggested eliminating language in the draft calling for «sufficient, predictable, additional and sustainable financial resources» to help poor nations adapt to climate change, on the grounds that it is vague.

It also promises financial support to poorer nations, to help them adapt to the damage that will be caused by the climate changes that are already happening.

Negotiators from developed countries tended to dismiss the steep emissions reductions demanded by poorer nations as a negotiating strategy — and also absurd.

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.

This warming is predicted to increase some crop yields in northern countries, but also bring more floods and droughts - particularly in poor nations.

Through our global network of local writers, we are continuing our award - winning coverage of global and local environmental challenges, with a focus on the people for whom the ecosphere matters in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development in order to survive; poor women and children, who are the most vulnerable in natural disasters.Sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and The World Bank (WB), IPS also maintains the award - winning Tierramérica, a specialised information service on environment and development.

Adaptation finance should also be channelled through the LDC Fund, which is set up to better serve the world's poorest and most vulnerable nations.

The poor track record of rich nations in meeting their fast start finance pledges has raised serious concerns that these countries will also renege on their bigger promise to ensure that US$ 100 billion flows to developing nations each year by 2020 to help them to respond to climate change.

They will also seek agreement on how much rich countries should pay to help poor nations to deal with climate change.

b. All nations agreed to limit the increase in global average temperatures to «well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels» — the level beyond which scientists believe the Earth will likely begin to experience rapid global warming and to «pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels», a warming amount which may also cause serious global harms particularly to many poor, vulnerable nations.

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.

Friends of the Earth believes that Contraction and Convergence under - estimates the cuts needed in developed countries because it fails to take into account responsibilities for historic emissions and it also underestimates the development needs of poor 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.

Developing countries also say some wealthier countries − in particular, the US − are seeking to weaken the financial negotiating position of poorer nations by questioning long - held definitions of what constitutes a developed and a developing country — «differentiation», in UN jargon.

Inhofe has also promised to block financing of the $ 3 billion pledge Obama made late last year to the United Nations Green Climate Fund that helps poor countries cope with the effects of global warming.

In a bid to defuse political objections from poor countries, their study also proposes a way of adjusting the formula for emission targets so developing world nations aren't penalized for allowing fossil fuel consumption by the 2 billion people who barely generate any emissions — or roughly under 1 ton of CO2 per year.

The rapid emergence of China, India, and other developing economies as formidable economic competitors to OECD economies has also rendered two further pillars of the old framework untenable: first, the notion that rich countries would agree to very deeply cut their own emissions to create more atmospheric space for poor nations emissions to grow or, alternatively, that they would heavily subsidize the deployment of cleaner but more expensive energy technologies in the developing world.