Sentences with phrase «by rich nations»

Without that happening (and Europe) obviously no progress is made, but the intent of Doha is reductions by rich nations without restricting the growth of poorer nations.

In one fell swoop, the provision of resources to adapt to climate change has been made solely dependent on market mechanisms, when in fact what is needed is a fulfillment of the legal obligations of the Convention by rich nations providing the funds.

While the framework established that developing nations would have the right to develop, it also envisioned that development in places like China and India might take a fundamentally different, and less carbon - intensive path than that taken by rich nations.

«We think that $ 10 billion already pledged by rich nations is not enough for vulnerable countries to deal with the impacts of climate change», said Guillén.

A particular worry of mine is that some developing nations, faced with a climate crisis, may use the notion of the past uncompensated atmospheric imperialism by rich nations as a moral justification for launching a unilateral assault on the climate, by means of solar radiation management.

Next month's University of California report warns that unless China radically changes its energy policies, its increases in greenhouse gases will be several times larger than the cuts in emissions being made by rich nations under the Kyoto Protocol.

Their plight has been created by ferocious storms not caused by their own actions but by profligate carbon emissions (CO2) by rich nations.

Plans by rich nations to add $ 100 billion of new money in the next decade to help developing countries cut emissions are evaporating.

Not very well, according to the latest estimate of the carbon cuts promised by rich nations, which shows that the pledges made so far fall short of what is needed to avoid dangerous climate change.

When Lunt and his colleagues examined individual HFC emissions reported by rich nations to the United Nations, they found inaccuracies.

The bank, which is dominated by rich nations, wants to take command of a network of agricultural research centres and their priceless collections of genetic varieties of crops.

When calculated this way, the top seven positions are held by richer nations, and China and India drop to 19th and 20th, respectively.

India and other developing countries quite rightly claim they need and deserve money, plainly speaking, both to switch to lower - carbon energy systems and to brace themselves for the impacts that are already locked in by past carbon emitted by richer nations.

But a new report confirms that this is an accounting illusion - with more emissions being «exported» to developing countries, who increasingly make the goods consumed by the richer nations.

Not exact matches

Many residents of Norway politely declined, according to Reuters, likely because «the Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet.»

Fed by this belief, Canada's home ownership rate rose to eclipse most other rich nations», up almost 10 % since 2000.

Such an insightful comment by David Thomson, or any of the nation's ultra rich, is rare.

And last but not least, the world's 43 most vulnerable countries adopted a push for 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 — leading with a commitment that many rich and developed nations have yet to make.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once described the 51 year old billionaire as a man or a company of men who was plastic and permeable to principles and by the law of nature overpowers and override all cities, nations, rich men, kings and poets.

A new report produced by the digital marketing firm Aira for industrial components distributor RS Components tries to visualize that wealth, comparing $ 100 billion to the gross domestic product of the world's richest nations.

In a statement, Pope Francis said: «At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far - sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

According to data provided to me by Rich Houseal of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, Massachusetts is the most Catholic state in the nation.

Current development can, in fact, be described as the process by which the rich and more powerful reallocate the nation's natural resources in their favor and modern technology is the tool that subserves this process.

Efforts to promote such changes in the guise of human rights are correctly condemned as egregious instances of «cultural imperialism» by which elites of certain rich nations, not least of the United States, attempt to impose their values on the rest of the world.

Latest was explosions in India marked as «Islamic Jihadists» and another in Pakistan although I was surprised that it was not marked as «Hindu Jihadists»... That would have had both Great Countries confront each other serving the purpose of other competing nations over the Rich Indian Peninsular... Believe me no nation fall back unless people of her own are traitors to it's nations principals and beliefs for the reason of Hate, Envy, Revenge, or Greeds towards material wealth even if by selling their Dignity and integrity or their family, tribe, community, the nation and the country it wouldn't mean much to them... and those can be found among every level of the one Society...

The religious scene in America is quite different from everywhere else, if for no other reason than that we are by far the richest and most powerful nation in the world.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

By contrast, government action in America reduces child poverty by a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nationBy contrast, government action in America reduces child poverty by a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nationby a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nations.

Frank Rich of the Times witnessed the thirty - five thousand Promise Keepers gathered at Shea Stadium and did his homework by reading the Nation, which featured PK as its hysteria of the week.

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.»

The rich nations have become rich by their dedication to the use of science and technology to produce things.

By the way, my take on this question is that God allows a lot of suffering, not only in the 3rd world, but also in the richest nations.

Pushed incessantly by figures like the World Bank's McNamara, the idea that nations could become rich only if they moved to control their population rates became an article of faith among Western and Western - educated intellectuals in Asia — a faith backed up by aid dollars linked to the willingness of recipient countries to develop control measures.

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.

Western Sahara is rich in high - quality phosphate reserves, but is controlled by Morocco in defiance of United Nations resolutions.

Here, she showcases her nation's rich biodiversity — particularly its coastal region — by continually rotating the fare of different local producers; the ultimate aim being to encourage the spread agricultural wealth among the many smaller producers, instead of the larger few.

Being owned by Nigerias» richest man, one of the most corrupt nations on the planet, just because he's very rich, doesn't make him the right person for the job.

Both Germany and France have historically struggled in Europe but those two Nations now boast 2 of the richest clubs in the game in PSG and Bayern Munich respectively; where once the Premier League was home to exclusive money - bags, players now have more options and a lot of heads have been turned by the bright lights of Paris and co..

His next destination will be decided by his Qatari side Al - Arabi who have kept him on loan the last 18 months after he failed to settle in Qatar six months after moving to the oil rich nation from Standard Liege of Belgium.

According to a TU report, the actual ownership of Momentive is fairly complicated — a corporate web that includes six billionaires on the Forbes magazine list of the nation's 400 richest people, including Stephen Schwarzman, founder and CEO of the Blackstone Group, who was tapped by President - elect Donald Trump to serve as his chief job creation adviser.

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 nation's top energy - industry lobbyist said Cuomo's «knee - jerk» ban on fracking is being «cheered» by the gas and oil industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, all of which share the gas - rich Marcellus Shale region with New York.

Rich nations must boost their overseas aid for education or UN targets to educate all children by 2015 will be missed, world leaders heard yesterday.

One of the great showdowns looming during United Nations climate negotiations in Paris in the coming weeks revolves around whether richer countries can demonstrate that they plan to meet a promise they made during 2009 negotiations in Copenhagen for «mobilizing» $ 100 billion a year of climate financing by 2020.

Led by China, the G77 coalition of developing nations insisted that rich countries had to give more — more cuts, and lots more money.

Rich nations have committed to a goal of providing $ 100 billion a year in climate cash by 2020.

Spending on innovation among the richest nations took a nosedive early last year and began a slow recovery in 2009 — shown in sharp relief by data in a report issued today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).