Sentences with phrase «by poorer nations»

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

-- That the world's established powers pay for any costs borne by poorer nations as they adapt to climate change and shift away from business as usual on emissions.

Another issue is «Third World debt», and many Christians with others are campaigning through the Jubilee 2000 Coalition for the cancellation of unpayable debts by the poorest nations.

would be sold by poor nations, where more people live.

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

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Obama's jobs plan (speech transcript) has to win the approval of the same debt hawks in Washington who recently gave Standard & Poor's an excuse (read the press release here) to downgrade America's credit by threatening to not raise the nation's debt ceiling.

The lack of discipline and fiscal responsibility in Washington led to a downgrade of the nation's sea of debt by Standard & Poor's.

But in its neoliberal form it becomes a nightmare lived by the victims of unemployment, young people traumatized by the future, workers shut out of the productive system and nations subjected to structural adjustment, labour deregulation, the erosion of social security systems and the elimination of networks serving the poor.

However, the «forgiveness» of debts of the poorest countries, now being touted by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, is based on conditions that enslave the nation further.

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Its about time we stop trying to reward the wealthy for already being wealthy by giving them more money and stop trying to punish the poor for simply being poor in a nation where the minimum wage isn't a living wage, health insurance is unaffordable for far too many, and education is obscenely expensive.

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.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

Asia's recent economic growth makes plausible the Economist's projection that «within a generation, perhaps half of today's poor nations could be rich by current standards.»

Poor nations, insisting on their human rights of autonomy and self - control, rightfully resent outside identification of their problems and «proper» solutions dictated by developed nations, however well intentioned.

When was the last time Bauchmann proposed how to turn our nation from the wrath of God by using the trillions we throw down the war machine toilet to instead help our homeless, sick and poor?

Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.

Poor nations are at present relatively minor contributors to the carbon dioxide generated by burning fossil fuels.

A nation that spends billions on sophisticated military hardware and computerized weapons only to be rendered impotent by a mob of poor, screaming Islamic students ought to appreciate the irony of how powerless the powerful can be.

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.

Further, although Australia has high food safety standards when compared to many Asian export markets, it was only ranked 14th out of 17 OECD countries, outscored by competitor nations within Europe and North America.86 Industry interviews suggested this was largely due to poor R&D support from government, the patchwork of auditors and poor information flow across the country.

By purchasing Alter Eco quinoa, consumers are supporting the efforts of the brand and the United Nations alike to ensure food security, economic justice, and biodiversity in some of the poorest parts of the world.

The nation's largest professional organization for lactation professionals, the International Lactation Consultant Association, has become so alarmed by growing numbers of parents using Ezzo's «infant management program» with poor results that, at its recent international conference in July, the group offered a presentation to a standing - room - only audience on how to deal with «rigid approaches to care giving» in the clients that they see.

In his 1984 address at the Democratic National Convention, he talked of a nation of haves and have - nots, of a yawning disconnect between rich and poor largely ignored by Reagan.

The common thread of Democratic history, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama, has been an abiding faith in the judgment of hardworking American families, and a commitment to helping the excluded, the disenfranchised, and the poor, strengthen our nation by earning themselves a piece of the American Dream.

The poorest children in Wales are being let down by the Welsh Labour Government, Aled Roberts AM has argued today following the publication of the second «State of the nation» report into social mobility and child poverty.

In actuality, we have poor nations around the world enslaved by the International Monetary Fund, locked into trade blocs that help the U.S. at everyone else's expense and on and on.

The EU has said that there should be a $ 150 billion annual package of public and private finance by 2020 to help poorer nations develop green industries and adapt to climate change.

«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.

By 1977 one of the poorest farming regions in the country had been transformed into one of the wealthiest, raising much of the nation's agricultural exports and fattening 40 percent of its grain - fed beef.

The decline was due entirely to cutbacks by wealthy nations, which slashed spending by $ 72.6 million; poorer countries actually increased funding by $ 5.1 million.

It was created in part because poor nations were feeling pushed around by wealthy ones.

And this year's negotiations must produce a road map toward the $ 100 billion a year by 2020 that developed countries have promised to raise to help poor nations cope with warming.

The project is now funded by a transition - to - scale grant from the Saving Lives at Birth consortium to determine whether the test improves preeclampsia diagnosis and reduces morbidity and mortality in resource - poor nations.

Their findings, released by Science Translational Medicine, have already led to an affordable, fast and accurate urine test that could revolutionize the diagnosis of preeclampsia in resource - poor nations.

They're part of the environmental justice movement, a crusade that grew out of the recognition that it was mainly the poor and people of color who were forced — by circumstance, finances, lack of political power and what activists call «environmental apartheid» that callously targets the disenfranchised — to live and work in some of the nation's dirtiest environments.

In every nation, rich and poor, in which a choice of contraceptives is available and is backed up by reasonably accessible safe abortion for when contraception fails, women have two or fewer children.

Countries like Singapore — where the economy has more than tripled and whose emissions have jumped by 61 percent since the dividing lines between «rich» and «poor» nations were drawn — face new demands for climate action.

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.

This poor island nation is regularly hit by plague outbreaks, but they are typically the relatively less dangerous bubonic form, transmitted from rats to humans by fleas, and occur largely in remote areas.

On the one hand, it aims to improve current poor knowledge about usage of the electro - magnetic spectrum by introducing cyber-physical nodes that will be capable of monitoring the wideband spectrum at a very large scale, such as cities and nations.

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.

Germanwatch, a think - tank partly funded by the German government, said poor nations had suffered most from extreme weather in the past two decades, and worldwide, extreme weather had killed 530,000 people and caused damage of more than $ 2.5 trillion.

As a provision of the Kyoto Protocol, the CDM enables industrial nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in part by purchasing «carbon offsets» from poorer countries, where green projects are more affordable.

They noted that many poor nations, for instance, are clustered in tropical regions characterized by poor soils for agriculture and lots of nasty diseases, such as malaria.

This includes clauses to: limit global warming to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and endeavour to limit it to 1.5 °C; for countries to meet their own voluntary targets on limiting emissions between 2020 and 2030; for countries to submit new, tougher, targets every five years; to aim for zero net emissions by 2050 - 2100; and for rich nations to help poorer ones adapt.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

The world's most prosperous nation thanks to its resource in the virtuous metal vibranium, the fictional kingdom has ingeniously managed to conceal its reality to the rest of the world by posing as just another poor African country.