Sentences with phrase «by poorer countries»

He helped persuade global leaders to write off debt owed by the poorest countries and encouraged the Bush administration and others to vastly increase AIDS relief.

Second — an airflight tax similar to the one proposed by Chancel and Pikkety (see original post), but higher due to the need for larger amounts than previously calculated to pay for the giant economic transformation needed by the poor countries of the world.

The largest costs of climate change are disproportionately borne by poor countries, especially in Africa and South - Southeast Asia.

China will be «flexible» in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Montreal Protocol was lauded as the most successful treaty in history, complete with nearly 200 members, a Multilateral Fund to help finance actions by poor countries and a record of countries outperforming their targets.

UN peacekeepers around the world are largely supplied by poor countries, and of the top 15 contributors, which supply 71 per cent of UN troops, 12 harbour cholera.

Over in Bonn, left - wing NGOs and developing nations are back to agitating for wealthy nations to pick up the tab for «loss and damage» suffered by poor countries when extreme weather strikes.

These impacts will likely be most harshly experienced by poor countries around the world which have done very little to cause theca climate problem.

He added: «And writing off up to 100 per cent of the debt owed by the poorest countries.

COP21: Settling arguments about who should provide the cash needed by poorer countries to fight and adapt to climate change is key to a strong agreement at the UN summit.