Sentences with phrase «from rich countries»

Some want all the money to come from rich country governments, but those governments are adamant that they will not provide such funding solely from the public purse.

Yet aid from rich countries to build sewage systems has fallen.

Large amounts of financial assistance from rich countries could help facilitate this, but what has been offered so far is too little and too late.

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.

Many of the senior delegates from richer countries had already left, heading to hotels to pack their bags and then race off to the airport.

It has constantly been under attack from rich countries who have ignored and diluted its core tenants in the last 21 years of negotiations.

One professor of tourism policy tells Becker it is «the greatest modern voluntary transfer of wealth from rich countries to poor countries.»

Since the last relatively substantive meeting on a new climate treaty, in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007, there has been a steady stream of statements about the urgent need to «seal the deal» next month in Copenhagen, providing a firm new treaty curbing emissions from rich countries and emerging powers and buttressing poor ones against climatic and coastal hazards.

There are two chief reasons for the probability of mass starvation in the future: the inability of the poorer nations to grow enough food, owing to loss of arable land, droughts and a rapidly growing population; and the fact that our monetary system militates against the redistribution of food from the richer countries with surpluses to poorer nations with starving populations (see Scenario 7).

Here I am, a privileged white male from the richest country in the history of history, connected to three men from the most marginal group in one of the world's poorest, violence - torn countries... and we are finding more of our own humanity through one another.

As part of this exercise, Pearce and his colleagues have placed values on human lives that range from $ 1.5 million for people from the richest countries down to $ 100 000 for those in poorer developing nations.

The proposed agreement, echoing the architecture of the Framework Convention and Kyoto Protocol, has a few main themes: finding ways that rich countries can help poor ones adapt to impending climate change; strengthening efforts to curb emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases from rich countries and the biggest poor ones; and committing rich countries to helping poor ones deploy energy technologies or forest policies that limit their emissions even as they try to prosper.

Individuals from rich countries still dominate the 10 per cent cohort, but one - third of the world's worst emitters now come from developing and emerging nations.

In Greece, which is far from a rich country, only about 30 % of the people work at all, and they have short work weeks and retire early.

To drive this point home, Talbott quotes Denis Goulet in The Barefoot Expert: «It is discomforting for a sophisticated technical expert from a rich country to learn that men who live on the margin of subsistence and daily flirt with death and insecurity are sometimes capable of greater happiness, wisdom, and human communion than he is, notwithstanding his knowledge, wealth, and technical superiority.»

While Steam is expanding its audience in China and other Asian countries, the purchasing power of gamers there can not match that of gamers from richer countries.

At a summit in Manila earlier this month, the expanding Climate Vulnerable Forum, including 43 nations and 1 billion people, pressed for concrete commitments in Paris from rich countries both to more ambitious emissions cuts and aid.

Its demand for a substantial portion of the atmosphere's remaining «carbon space» — essentially making room for that coal growth — is legitimate and ethical, as long as it is doing whatever it can (with financing or technical help from rich countries) to build the most efficient, cleanest coal plants possible.

Given that coal use by China (and the sources of that coal) has to be at the center of any serious discussion of climate progress, it's worth reviewing some rich new contributions to the discussion I initiated on the ethical, economic and climatic issues that arise when coal flows from rich countries to fast - growing giants like China.

According to the report, tourists from richer countries such as Canada, Germany and the United States top the charts in travel - related carbon emissions per tourist, while smaller countries that are popular tourist destinations such as Maldives, Mauritius and Cyprus, receive the highest amount of pollution from foreign tourists per local resident.

Oxfam senior climate adviser Antonio Hill said a continued lack of «political will from rich country leaders» meant there was no movement on the emissions reduction targets that could help safeguard the world's poorest people.

So far, the UN's Green Climate Fund had met its goal of $ 10 billion in pledges from rich countries, with the biggest pledges coming from the U.S. ($ 3 billion) and Japan ($ 1.5 billion).

The Rio convention conditions cooperation by developing countries in reducing emissions on new financial support from the rich countries.

U.S. diplomats were specifically instructed by the Obama administration to oppose any attempts to create an independent fund for climate reparations from rich countries to poor countries.

Another notable victory by the United States was to include language making clear that no system of assisting the poorest states with the unavoidable impacts from global warming — storm, flood, drought and pestilence — would constitute a legal liability claim for compensation from the rich countries.

And Sarah Westervelt, a Basel Action Network official, said about 80 % will actually be shipped abroad to be «recycled» in China and Africa - and that is a violation of provisions of the Basel treaty that ban the shipment of toxic waste from the rich countries to poor ones.

By 2030, carbon dioxide emissions from developing countries should hit 25.8 billion metric tons, while the pollution from rich countries should be 14.6 billion metric tons, the EIA said.

The demonstrators were largely focused on economic injustice and inequity, with a central concern being climate change driven mainly by emissions from rich countries and mostly harming poor nations that have not had an industrial revolution.

Then they immediately add that, in any progressive system, «the vast majority of high emitters still come from rich countries (particularly North America).»

The Oakland Institute has been talking for years about increasing food security by increasing food sovereignty in poor nations, rather than fighting hunger by dumping cheap, overproduced food from rich countries, driving local farmers in those poor countries out of business.

For example, China has used its climate pledge as leverage to get more international aid from rich countries, like the U.S., to help poorer countries adapt to global warming.

I don't get why almost all in the media, big companies and people from the richer countries are united in solidarity only for France.

To many, that finding was illustrative of a lack of commitment from richer countries to help developing ones adapt to the global warming that they have done the most to cause.

Even so, efforts to use capital from rich countries to help prevent the destruction of tropical forests are increasingly in favor among key environmental leaders, including former Vice President Al Gore.

Even development assistance from the rich countries to the poor ones is jeopardized because development of the poor countries will inevitably lead both to great increases in their demand for energy, and perhaps even worse, in their ability to compete with the present industrialized countries to acquire fuels in the international markets.

Food imported into the United States from countries with a low gross domestic product (GDP) poses higher risks than food from richer countries, according to a new study analyzing 10 years» worth of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) data on food import violations.

This could potentially pose more problems at the next international climate summit, as past talks have fallen apart over disagreements on how much wealth should be transferred from rich countries to poor ones.

Poor countries pulled out of the United Nations climate talks during a fight over transferring wealth from richer countries to fight global warming.