Sentences with phrase «by richer countries»

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

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

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.

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 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».

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

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.

[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]

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

There have been several proposals for coming up with the $ 100 billion pledged by rich countries to reduce deforestation, finance a clean technology revolution in developing countries, and help people and wildlife adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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.

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.»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The VC firm is owned, in turn by Renova Group, owned by Russian billionaire, Victor Vekselberg, who is one of Russia's richest men and dominates the country's oil and metals industry.

These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

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.»

And rich countries will finance poorer ones, with $ 100 billion a year by 2020 and a promise to increase financial support after that.

The bulk of bribery and other forms of corruption (though by no means all of it) goes on in developing countries where rule of law is lax and the opportunities for profit are rich.

Created by former Buddhist monk Andy Puddicombe (pictured) and Rich Pierson, the app teaches meditation to more than nine million people in 190 countries.

The London - based Centre for Policy Studies identified nearly 1,000 SuperEntrepreneurs from 53 countries by analyzing Forbes» list of the world's richest people from 1996 to 2010.

While the rich economies produce more innovation, if total innovation output is divided by input, the list of leading innovative countries looks very different.

Bill Gates and some of the world's other richest entrepreneurs will join with governments from both rich and emerging countries on Monday to kick off the Paris climate talks by pledging billions of dollars of investment in clean energy technologies.

We face an economy of «exclusion and inequality» in which «the hearts of many people are gripped by fear and desperation, even in the so - called rich countries,» wrote Pope Francis, Time Magazine's Person of the Year, in late November.

In one generation, this tiny dot went from being broke to being one of the richest countries in the world, without any natural resources, purely by strict execution of a great strategy.

Germans and Austrians are the biggest users of cash among countries in the euro zone's richer «core», according to a recent study by the European Central Bank (ECB).

Reportedly one of the 400 richest people in China, the recycling magnate claims to be the No. 1 philanthropist in the country; Chen was reportedly worth $ 740 million in 2012, but he has pledged to give away most, if not all, of his wealth before his death, inspired by Bill Gates» «Giving Pledge.»

Others say that richer countries may lack insight into the needs of recipients or that aid can be misused by beneficiaries.

This country — where families are slightly richer, slightly better educated and definitely less battered by recession — seems even more fertile ground for Target than its home turf.

«This year's selections — independently elected by 16 committees around the country meeting simultaneously — reflects the rich diversity of America,» Elliot F. Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said in a news release.

He also declined to sign the Giving Pledge, the organization started by Warren E. Buffett and Bill Gates to persuade the country's richest families to vow to give away at least half of their fortunes.

George Osborne, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, has responded to the furore over Starbucks, Google and Amazon by promising to use the country's imminent chairmanship of the G8 club of rich countries to wage war on tax havens.

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.

In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

Most of China's tech giants, including instant messaging and gaming company Tencent, mobile handset maker Xiaomi, portal and microblogging giant Sina, and the country's video streaming sites YoukuTudou, iQiyi, and LeTV, all have rushed into the rapidly growing space, joining upstarts such as Panda TV, an e-sports streaming app owned by Wang Sicong, the son of Wang Jianlin, China's richest man, a real estate mogul with aspirations in media and entertainment.

It was great for Nexen shareholders, but CNOOC received a lot of negative sentiment from Canadians because it's a State Owned Enterprise, which gives it an unfair market advantage over other energy companies because it's financially and politically backed by one of the richest countries in the world.

«what unites the experiences of the main deficit countries is a steep increase in income inequality over recent decades, as measured by the share of income going to the richest 5 percent of -LSB-...]

In rich countries, there are often many productive projects that desperately await investment, but this failure to invest is driven by other factors, and usually not by a lack of savings, so a savings glut is unlikely to lead to higher productive investment.

With the objective of learning from the rich experiences and lessons that other countries have gained from their own programs, in early 2016, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada announced a competitive policy research grant for research on best practices by foreign SME export assistance programs.

Najib Razak has vowed to make the country rich by 2020.

These clauses exist in thousands of international trade and investment deals and are used by multinational companies from rich countries to sue governments when policy decisions interfere with their investments.

By: Nadine James 4th May 2018 South Africa and other mineral - rich developing countries with close economic links to China must reassess their trade policies to provide a buffer against fluctuating commodity demand, according to Witwatersrand University School of Mining Engineering postgraduate student Peaceful Mathebula and... →

Of his top countries to invest in, seven are in Asia (led by China), plus Russia («a rich country and the world's largest oil exporter»), Germany, Canada, and Australia.