Sentences with phrase «despite most developing countries»

Large scale participation prevailed as a primary goal when talks began on a climate convention in 1991, despite most developing countries having negligible greenhouse gas emissions.

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Despite being one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, the USA loses more women and babies during childbirth than any other well - developed country.

Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).

Despite the fact that most Indian customers do not have a credit card to shop online and the country's infrastructure is somewhat developing, online retail sales are expected to grow to $ 76B in in the next 8 years.

Despite this fact, the international media, at least in most developed countries, is utterly failing to report on the ethical and justice dimensions of issues that are so central to achieving a favorable outcome in Warsaw.

This policy document stresses that many developing countries, and particularly children in these countries, are already suffering the most from climate changes despite being the least responsible for the emissions that cause them.

Around $ 1 billion that Japan has pledged under a U.N. initiative to help developing countries fight global warming has actually gone to support Japanese coal - fired power plants in Indonesia, despite the fact that coal is the most carbon intensive fuel in the world.

Despite the relatively low rates of car ownership in most developing nations, cities in those countries are still being built with the automobile in mind, Sanyal said.

Despite the fact that China is the biggest carbon emitter on the planet, with the most dynamic economy in the world, the Chinese remain wedded to a 25 - year - old idea that China is still a developing country, in the same category as, say, Uganda, and therefore not responsible for taking action.