Sentences with phrase «developed wealthy world»

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Environmental Ranking for Canada and the OECD finds that Canada is a world leader in environmental performance and ranks in the top ten among the world's wealthiest, cleanest and most developed countries on a wide range of environmental indicators.

Schizophrenia has a more benign course and outcome in the developing world [than in the wealthy, industrialized nations].

Manila, 4th August, 2011 — During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parWorld Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parworld and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

This observance brings the world together each year through a theme that is timely for all, from the wealthiest to the least developed nations.

NEW YORK / GENEVA, 30 July 2011 - During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parWorld Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parworld and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

It reminded me of the plight of so - called developing nations in our relationships with the wealthier, larger, more established nations of the world.

Chancellor Gordon Brown today hailed the UK's # 1 billion boost for immunisation programmes in the developing world as the first step towards making a reality of aid promises made by wealthy nations.

These two men, both scions of wealthy, influential families got on famously on a personal level, even though they disagreed on the new world order that developed at the end the conflict.

Global Cancer Facts and Figures, 2nd Edition, a report released in 2011 by The American Cancer Society, notes that cancers related to changing lifestyles as nations become wealthier, including lung, breast, and colorectal tumors, continue to rise in the developing world http://www.cancer.org/Research/CancerFactsFigures/GlobalCancerFactsFigures/global-facts-figures-2nd-ed

Wealthy nations not spared But the developed world won't be spared from the effects of rising temperatures, according to WHO.

Asked whether a new developed - world commitment would be important in Marrakech, U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa told Climatewire this week that wealthy countries appeared willing to provide poor ones with the assurances they seek.

Sidibé contends that in the past, the world singled out a few wealthy countries to fund the response, but today, developing countries must increase their financial commitments, too.

And while wealthier economies generally are less exposed to the danger of coastal flooding than those in the developing world, the study says, the United States is an exception.

Others can be managed with enough money; in the vulnerable developing world, that means financial aid from wealthier nations.

The lessons progress through a range of tasks that engage student's interest, encourage them to: -: interact and share what they know -: develop their abilities to extract information from text and graphics -: view information critically -: check the credibility and validity of information -: develop online research skills -: use web based tools to create surveys and data visualisations The lessons cover a range of topics including: -: Advertising and how it influences us -: Body language and how to understand it -: Introverts and extroverts and how they differ -: Emotional intelligence and how it impacts on our relationships -: Facts about hair -: Happiness and what effects it -: Developing study skills -: The environment and waste caused by clothes manufacturing -: Daily habits of the world's wealthiest people -: The history of marriage and weddings Each lesson includes: -: A step by step teachers guide with advice and answer key -: Worksheets to print for students

CCT programs are used around the world — in both the developing world and in wealthy nations — to reduce poverty and encourage a variety of goals, including school attendance and achievement.

While in the developing world it expects tablet penetration rates to remain under a quarter (25 %) in aggregate by 2017, although it expects certain «wealthier Asian markets» — such as Singapore and South Korea — to feature tablets as established, «universal computing tools» by then.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

In the developing world, most of the wealthy have «flight capital» stashed away in the USA or someplace equally reliable.

As they grow wealthier, developing - world consumers also buy more processed foods, and this too requires meat and dairy inputs.

Sausalito developed rapidly as a shipbuilding center in World War II, with its industrial character giving way in postwar years to a reputation as a wealthy and artistic enclave, a picturesque residential community (incorporating large numbers of houseboats), and a tourist destination, and is adjacent to, and largely bounded by, the protected spaces of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

The seven settled worlds have developed to accommodate this huge leap in expertise, giving the wealthy and highly effective the means to cheat demise by shifting between our bodies, whereas miring the much less privileged in rundown districts...

The seven settled worlds have developed to accommodate this large leap in know - how, giving the wealthy and highly effective the means to cheat dying by shifting between our bodies, whereas miring the much less privileged in rundown districts full...

While the world's wealthy countries appear to be inching toward «peak travel,» a decoupling of wealth and miles traveled, that is far from what's going on in the world's fast - growing cities in developing countries.

Dismissing an earlier offer by wealthy countries of short - term finance for the developing world, Mr. Di - Aping, in typically strident language, said, «Ten billion dollars will not buy developing countries» citizens enough coffins.»

European Union policy makers for the past decade have emphasized the need to implement a regulatory regime to put a global cap on emissions and to enable wealthy countries to finance ways of cutting carbon in the developing world.

More than 300,000 refugees fled severe drought, conflict and famine in southern Somalia in 2011 into Ethiopia and Kenya (William Davies / AFP / Getty Images) That's why, in recent years, many of the world's wealthier nations — including the United States, Germany, Britain, and Japan — have promised billions of dollars in aid to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of global warming and switch over to cleaner energy sources.

In turn, the GDRs approach defines and then quantifies the burdens appropriate to the world's comparatively wealthy population, those living above this development threshold — both in the developing countries and industrialized countries.

As Indur Goklany has shown, even assuming that the climate models on which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accurately predict (rather than exaggerate by 2 to 3 times) the warming effect of added CO2 in the atmosphere, people the world over, and especially in developing countries, will be wealthier in warmer than in cooler scenarios, making them less vulnerable than today to all risks — including those related to climate.

David Howell, SEO / BirdLife, said: «We knew it already, but COP23 has reconfirmed it: rapid transformational changes in the world economy, especially the economies of the wealthy and developing nations, must begin in the next few years, with commitments and action under way when COP24 begins.

A wealthy, developed world is one that is many times more resilient to natural disaster.

One example is UK - based public policy group The Optimum Population Trust (OPT), which has launched a new initiative urging wealthy members of the developed world to participate in carbon offsets that fund programs for curbing the population of developing nations.

Since about 1950 the western developed world has become steadily wealthier.

These are all reasonable requests that are necessary to save the most vulnerable countries from the disastrous effects of climate change, a process that is undoubtedly caused by the wealthy, developed world.

Indeed, the wealthy countries, through their reluctance to reduce their own emissions, have quite convincingly demonstrated to the developing world how undesirable if not actually impossible such paths must be.

Indeed, the wealthy countries, through their reluctance to reduce their own emissions, have quite convincingly demonstrated to the developing world how undesirable — if not actually impossible — such paths must be.

The wealthy developed world, but especially the US West Coast, is filled with liberals and environmentalists who are perfectly willing to drive a Prius and buy organic veggies but raise holy hell if anyone tries to build a bike lane, light rail station, or new housing anywhere near them.

The choices of developed - world citizens matter more than the choices of (say) Chinese citizens, and the choices of wealthy developed - world citizens matter most of all.

They are concerned that the funds will, once again, give wealthy Northern governments, and, in particular, their bank of choice, the World Bank, more control over funds intended to help developing countries.

The shortcomings of some wealthier nations isn't stopping key players in the developing world from making the most of COP16 — particularly when it comes to REDD, which Serra hopes will help fund safeguards to prevent further deforestation in the Amazon.

«It is simply disgraceful that the wealthiest country in the world is using the developing world as its garbage dump.

Real - world CO2 emissions have tracked the high end of earlier emissions scenarios [105], and until the currently wealthy countries can produce a large decline in their own emissions per capita, it is dubious to project that emissions per capita in the less developed countries will not continue on a trajectory up to the levels of currently wealthy countries.16

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.

The wealthy nations have agreed in principle to support low - carbon growth in the developing world and to help those countries hardest hit by climate change to adapt.

TH: Climate Care is particularly proud of the additional development benefits that are associated with many of its projects, yet some observers have baulked at the idea of wealthy westerners continuing to pollute, while funding low tech projects like treadle pumps in the developing world.

In fact, notwithstanding that it is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and one of the top five per - capita polluters, Canada says it won't lift a finger against climate change unless the big emitters in the developing world first commit to taking action.

He also argues that the time has come to consider «shared sacrifice» in the world's wealthiest nations: a course of voluntary economic contraction in developed economies (thus reducing fossil energy consumption), while allowing developing nations time to shift from dirty to clean energy.

features the first video footage shot inside Chinese gold farms, those gray market companies which collect and sell virtual gold (primarily from World of Warcraft) to wealthier gamers in the developed wWorld of Warcraft) to wealthier gamers in the developed worldworld.

And for certain wealthy people, going into the developing world and running a country is something that appeals to them.»

Some have said that Bitcoin makes much more sense in the developing world, while others claim developed nations like the United States have the sort of tech savvy and wealthy population necessary to give this new technology a boost.