Sentences with phrase «by rich countries»

When it comes to interpreting a climate pledge by richer countries to help poorer ones tackle the problem of climate change, about $ 60 billion last year.

Developing countries that have seen the text are understood to be furious that it is being promoted by rich countries without their knowledge and without discussion in the negotiations.

How many of them have been funded by rich countries?

All of these «tools / techniques» have been condemned and made illegal by the rich countries, even though every single one of them used them as they rose.

Dutch reviews of various assurances show a distinct need by rich countries to reduce emissions by 50 % by 2020.

Poorer nations say they are fed up with foot dragging by richer countries on finance and carbon cutting commitments.

By 2020, these efforts should amount to about $ 29bn a year, nearly a third of the $ 100bn a year in climate finance promised by rich countries to the poor as part of global climate change agreements.

But World Bank members vote according to their contributions, so the bank is dominated by rich countries, especially the US.

He almost certainly will not go if strategists foresee little chance of last - minute compromises replacing the hardened positions of the main blocs: the poorest countries (whose focus is deep cuts by rich countries and a lot of money to help them withstand climate stresses), the fast - growing emerging powers (whose focus is flexibility and money), Europe (whose focus is sustaining hard targets and a Kyoto - style carbon trading system) and the United States.

This will occur against a backdrop of poorer countries being priced out of the energy market altogether (as is already happening in many parts of the world), and of desperate attempts by richer countries to maintain energy supplies at any cost, most likely from much lower quality sources such as coal, heavy oil and tar sands (again, this is already happening).

Under the guise of preventing «dangerous manmade climate change» and compensating poor countries for alleged «losses and damages» due to climate and weather caused by rich country fossil fuel use, they had planned to control the world's energy supplies and living standards, replace capitalism with a new UN-centered global economic order, and redistribute wealth from those who create it to those who want it.

His essay dissects a subset of the problems in the international climate negotiations associated with the provision of financial support by rich countries for mitigation and adaptation in poor countries, captured by the term «climate finance.»

Poorer nations say they are fed up with foot - dragging by richer countries on finance and carbon - cutting commitments.

The failure to make progress on world trade was a theme picked up by Conservative leader David Cameron in a speech earlier today, when he criticised the «short - sighted protectionism by rich countries».

During the two - week round of Paris climate negotiations, which begin Nov. 30, developing countries will be calling for a «road map» to be agreed upon by richer countries to show that they're serious about providing the developing world with $ 100 billion a year by 2020.

Ecuador's Foreign Minister Fander Falconi said, «climate change has a very clear origin... high energy use by rich countries.»

There is laughably little money being put forth toward the GCF by rich countries, which undercuts a sense...

Kpondzo continued: «Dodgy accounting and fishy finance reporting by rich countries means that the millions already experiencing floods and droughts in every corner of Africa will be left to help themselves.

Money paid by rich countries to fight global warming will have to «be scaled up» from the $ 100bn a year on offer, the UN secretary general Ban Ki - moon said today.

Rather than addressing the tough issues, U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said late Thursday that the failure by rich countries to agree on ambitious emission cuts and billions of dollars in financing to help poor countries adapt to climate change has increased the distrust between the two sides.

The $ 30 billion in fast start funding, intended to help poor countries cope with the consequences of climate change, was pledged by rich countries at UN climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009.

The new biofuel revolution being subsidised by rich countries, led by the United States of America and the European Union could be buoyed by inability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions domestically as well as increased prices of crude oil.

Peru is a member of the AILAC bloc of six Latin American nations who are pushing for aggressive emission cuts not only by rich countries, but by big emerging economies such as China and Brazil.

In some of the poorest and most vulnerable nations, such as Bangladesh, they called for faster action by the rich countries to reduce emissions.

The documentary also takes us to Ghana showing the nightmare of e-waste that is simply dumped there by the rich countries.

It is basically a commitment by rich countries to pay countries in the tropics serious cash if they can slow their deforestation rates, with the results monitored intensively by satellites and airplanes before the big checks are cut.

Lynne Featherstone and I were in Ethiopia, for whom Britain is now the first member of the G8 to have met the decades - old promise by rich countries to spend 0.7 % of our national wealth on aid for the developing world.

The U.S. wants to keep any sort of climate reparation scheme part of a non-binding pledge by rich countries to give to poor countries for global warming mitigation.

By displaying a candidate for the presidency of Bolivia who, before even taking office, spits on the popular will (in this case by having his country join the International Monetary Fund which is dominated by the rich countries), David Gordon Green presents an allegory that applies well enough to elections here in the States.

Brussels, April 6, 2007 - Friends of the Earth Europe has demanded steep emissions cuts by all rich countries and more funding for climate change adaptation in developing countries, after the world's leading scientific experts today warned that the world's poor - who have done least to pollute the atmosphere - will suffer most as the planet heats up.

Negotiations collapsed dramatically in Denmark during COP15, partly due to the incompetence of the Danish presidency and partly due to a shameless attempt by rich countries to get rid of their responsibilities and shift the burden of solving climate change onto developing countries instead.

The developing countries point out that they will endure greater damage from future climate disasters caused by the rich countries» emissions.

Sanjay Vashist, director of Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA), said: «If India is supported by rich countries to act in line with its full potential, then it can continue to build on its emerging plan to secure a sustainable development pathway for the country that lifts its most vulnerable out of poverty.»

[And just to make the point one more time: The greater fraction of the CO2 in the atmosphere today is from fossil fuel burning (by rich countries), not deforestation - eric]

Passions are heightened by extraordinary recent climate - related disasters and concerns in poor countries that they're already being affected by a greenhouse - gas buildup mainly caused (so far) by rich countries.

By 2020, the rich countries are supposed to annually hand out $ 100 billion in reparations — ah, aid — to help poor countries mitigate and adapt to climate change being imposed on them by rich country carbon dioxide emissions.

In the opening sessions, China and India, as part of a developing countries group, requested that a discussion of the promises laid down by rich countries to meet before 2020 should be included in the negotiation agenda.