Sentences with phrase «does on developed nations»

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«This doesn't happen in any other developed country in the world, and it should not happen here, the richest nation on the planet,» he says.

And no one's doing much to improve the situation — a nation that spends $ 600 million developing new cosmetics and fragrances each year has exactly one pharmaceutical company still conducting research on improved methods of birth control.

The Shinnecock Indian Nation has numerous hurdles to clear be before it could develop a casino off - reservation and we do not expect that it will have a major impact on the Aqueduct casino.»

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

Although built by Boston Dynamics, the ATLAS project is unique in that multiple robotics teams around the nation can get their hands on one to test the extent of their programming skills in preparation for the DARPA Robotics Challenge, which «aims to develop semi-autonomous ground robots that can do «complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human - engineered environments.

For instance, when I first began building my Superhero unit, a unit based on developing everything from origin stories to advocacy speeches presented to a mythical United Nations, I didn't think at all about the Common Core Standards until my checklists and lessons were designed and in front of my face.

Mostly the plan builds on work the nonprofit has already been doing to develop what Harris said is the nation's first incubator for educational entrepreneurs and to invest in programs that bring more teachers and educational leaders to Indianapolis.

What reformers should do is develop the tools that can allow families to make school overhauls successful; this includes building comprehensive school data systems that can be used in measuring success, and continuing to advance teacher quality reforms (including comprehensive teacher and principal evaluations based mostly on value - added analysis of student test score growth data, a subject of this week's Dropout Nation Podcast) that can allow school operators of all types to select high - quality talents.

When travelling and diving in developing countries please enjoy the sites, sounds and culture of that nation, but don't deprive its people of a scarce resource by imposing on what is often an under - resourced health system.

Developing nations say the Bush team threatened them with trade sanctions if they didn't yield on issues of interest to them.

Work Towards 25 - 40 % Emissions Reductions by 2020 On the subject of emission reductions targets — another area where there's a growing gap between what developing nations (and scientists) say is required and what wealthy nations seem politically willing to do — Mr De Boer said that emissions reductions in the range of 25 - 40 % by 2020 are something all nations should be working towards.

Rigg doesn't just point a finger at President Obama though, she also has words for developing nations (who need to recognize too that they need to get on board with commitments to low - carbon energy and not just stand behind historical obligations to combat climate change) and the EU (who have tried to eliminate language on fisheries reform, no doubt under domestic political pressure).

The core panel conclusion, of course, is that rich and developing nations are way behind on what would need to be done to avoid substantial and largely irreversible (on meaningful time scales) warming of the climate.

The UK already spends 0.02 % of its GDP on clean energy, as do some other developed nations, but other countries do not and there is no international cooperation to maximise the results.

They want to say that they will do emissions cuts, but on their own terms, while the developed nations do as they PROMISED in the Convention and Kyoto Protocol, and take the lead in reductions.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

There's been a sense this year of developed countries hiding behind negotiations on other issues, such as agricultural policy, to avoid reaching the point where money has to be talked about, but developing countries want to see that richer nations are doing more than just expressing sympathy and empathy and instead are putting their money where their mouth is on climate action.»

Don't forget that there has been no real negotiation here on targets for developed nations.

Tom Burke, the influential environmentalist and a founder of E3G consultants, said: «There was indeed a lot of work done to get developing nations to put pressure on China.»

Their emissions targets could still use tightening, but for developing countries which are often scapegoated and used by developed nations as an excuse not to reduce their own emissions (as Mitt Romney did), China and India are on the right track.

Developing countries have said they want to do their part but have refused to agree on binding targets and want to see more ambitious cuts by the industrialized nations.

If developed nations like the USA sit on our hands and say «our emissions don't matter,» then China will have no incentive to reduce their emissions either.

If you claim that the US or other developed nation has no duty to act on climate change until China acts, do you agree that economic competitors such has China have no duty to reduce their emissions until the United States does so?

If you claim that the US or other developed nation has no duty to act on climate change until China acts, do you agree that economic competitors such has China have no duty to reduce their ghg emissions until the United States does so?

Do you deny that all high ghg emitting developed nations under the UNFCCC has a duty to adopt policies that prevent harms from climate change to human health and ecological systems on which life depends which the nation is causing in other nations?

Are you aware that the claim frequently made by opponents of US and other national action on climate change that if the country acts to reduce its ghg emissions and China or other developing country does not act it will make no difference because climate change will still happen is not true because ghg emissions from nations exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions are responsible for rising atmospheric concentrations of ghgs?

Do you deny that all high ghg emitting developed nations under the UNFCCC has a duty to adopt policies that prevent harms from climate change to human health and ecological systems on which life depends in other nations?

Because, as we have demonstrated in the recent article on «equity» and climate change, there are approximately 50 ppm of CO2 equivalent atmospheric space that remain to be allocated among all nations to give the world approximately a 50 % chance of avoiding a 2oC warming and developing nations that have done little to elevate atmospheric CO2 to current levels need a significant portion of the remaining atmospheric space, high emitting developed nations need to reduce their emissions as fast as possible to levels that represent their fair share of the remaining acceptable global budget.

«Action to mitigate global climate change,» the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has declared in a statement, «must be built upon a foundation of social and economic justice that does not put the poor at greater risk or place disproportionate and unfair burdens on developing nations.»

US President Barack Obama added to the pressure in January, saying the world did not «stand a chance against climate change» unless developing nations like India reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

Following the draft's adoption, South Africa's negotiator Nozipho Mxakato - Diseko, speaking on behalf of more than 130 developing nations, said, «In the words of Nelson Mandela, it always seems impossible until it is done.»

This was a political protocol based on the claim that wealthy industrialized (developed) nations, led by the US, did so by burning fossil fuels.

Najam said developing countries see the 2 degrees goal as a vague notion that does not put pressure on individual countries, since no one nation can control global temperature.

Still, based on the analyses that we and others have done, we believe that biofuels, developed in an economically and environmentally sensible way, can contribute significantly to the nation's — indeed, the world's — energy security while providing a host of benefits for many people in many regions.

If Yucca Mountain doesn't come to fruition and another geologic repository isn't developed, storing SNF in dry storage systems as they are currently (Figure 5) may be the nation's only recourse — other than hoping that a hard reality will serve to break the impasse on nuclear waste.

Deprived of the arguments from depletion, national security and global warming, the campaign to increase urban density and mass transit rests on nothing but a personal taste for expensive downtown living, a taste which the suburban working - class majorities in most developed nations manifestly do not share.

Well... without any teeth.The bill was introduced by Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D - NY), and points to the largest facts of e-waste - all of which we bemoan often on TreeHugger - that gadgets will continue to take over our lives, that they continue to pile up in drawers, recycling centers, and e-waste dumps in developing nations, and that not enough people know how to - or do - recycle their gadgets at end of life.

With the American Clean Energy & Security Act just passed in the House, let's look at what WWF has to say about how well the G8 countries, plus five developing nations are doing in terms of climate change policy: The 2009 G8 Climate Scorecards rank the members of the G8 on a range of issues — emission trends since 1990, growth of renewable energy and renewable energy policy, emissions per capita and per unit of GDP, CO2 per kWh of electricity, industrial energy efficiency, transport policy, among others.

I have never said that we all, especially the developed nations, don't have to simplify and live sustainably, and unlike you, I am working on what I preach.

Among negotiators, China's stance is widely viewed as a negotiating tactic to lower expectations for action and to allow it to play moral defender for other developing nations, some of whom fear that if China makes a big move, it will increase the pressure on them to do the same.

While developed nations must acknowledge some responsibility, this proposed compromise only requires that they do so from the point that climate change emerged as a concern and global negotiations on the issue were underway.

This categorization is problematic because this classification into these two categories arguably made some limited sense when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was opened for ratification in 1992, but it doesn't now given that some of the countries that were initially classified as developing countries, including India and China, are quickly emerging as the among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases (ghg).

This will be done by tightening a myriad of tax loopholes, improving auditing by the Canada Revenue Agency and raising tariffs on imports from some 70 higher - income developing nations.

When they do, having mandatory workers» compensation programs is what separates the United States from less - developed nations, where injured workers may simply be on their own financially.

«It will give new ammunition to First Nations, because clearly they signed treaties in the 19th century when there were not many activities on their traditional lands, and now they see all those developments going on, and they will certainly feel that the treaties... do not give them a real say on how their traditional lands are developed.