Sentences with phrase «asked rich nations»

The countries — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives and Afghanistan — jointly asked rich nations to fulfill their promises of emission cuts during the pre-2020 phase (second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol) as this action alone would convince the rest of the world about their intention and commitment post-2020 based on next year's global climate deal.

India «Asks Rich Nations to Cooperate,» wrote the Times of India.

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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.

To mark the occasion, Olav Kjorven, assistant secretary general of the United Nations for development policy, submitted a comment on my recent post asking if the world's wealthiest people need new goals even as rich countries work to foster human and environmental progress elsewhere.

Wheeling out a discredited argument from the Kyoto years the Abbott Government is now asking the world to give Australia special dispensation to pollute at higher levels because our population is expected to grow more quickly than those of other rich nations.