Sentences with phrase «from wealthy nations»

He said the high point of his efforts was the agreement by developing countries, reached at the 2007 conference in Bali, Indonesia, to join in efforts to contain global warming in return for financial and technical help from the wealthy nations.

The two previous U.N. executive secretaries have been from wealthy nations.

It outlined a weak agreement that required fewer emissions cuts from wealthy nations.

China and India refused to agree to such a limit, without greater commitment from wealthy nations to stronger mid-term cuts, and to pledges of aid and technology transfer.

Reuters reports the following: India Again Calls for 25 - 40 % Cuts From Wealthy Nations Indian negotiator Dinesh Patnaik was quoted as saying, «For any long - term goals there have to be credible mid-term goals in the range of 25 - 40 %.»

At COP16 in Cancun last year, for example, a mechanism was established to help deliver funds from wealthy nations to poor ones for carbon reduction and forest preservaton projects.

The countries still have major issues to hash out, including how to handle the billions of dollars to be funneled from wealthy nations to poorer ones to help them adapt to climate change and develop cleaner sources of energy.

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

This isn't always the case, obviously, but it often is for expats moving from a wealthy nation to a comparatively less - wealthy nation.

In a UN agreement that's the first of its kind, the country has committed to not drill in its Yasuni National Park — one of the most biologically - diverse corners of the Amazon rainforest — in exchange for a payment from wealthier nations.

Not exact matches

99 % of electricity used in Costa Rica comes from renewable sources, and the government is far ahead of many wealthier nations, having committed the country to becoming carbon neutral by 2021.

Not because I am one of the nation's wealthiest one percent (I am quite far from it indeed), nor because I would oppose higher taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations (I would likely favor them, depending on the particular proposal).

And more recently, Catholic schools and Lutheran schools have demonstrated a staunch commitment to urban education — at a time when many wealthier families fled from our nation's cities.

Middlebury's biomass gasification plant is the product of an administration comfortable with multi-million-dollar projects, made possible by a sizeable and wealthy circle of alumni, a massive endowment, huge tuition costs, and subsidies from our colossal nation - state.

But even if they agreed that in already industrialized countries with adequate productive capacity a shift toward regional self - sufficiency would be possible, they would be likely to argue that this withdrawal from the global market on the part of the wealthy nations would be unconscionable.

For some reason, I feel like calling myself «blessed» sends the message that I have somehow earned God's special favor, that God is rewarding me for good behavior, and that the millions of people who suffer from war, famine, poverty, and sickness because they weren't lucky (or blessed or fortunate) enough to be born in the wealthiest nation in the world are simply not as loved by God.

In a capitalist nation such as the United States or Canada, those who benefit most from the social arrangements are the wealthy.

Media is used to impose the culture and power of the wealthy nations from the global North.

Those who died in the United States represent a cross section of the human community: 4,000 people from more than 80 nations, people of nearly every ethnicity and religious belief, wealthy individuals and people with very little, including low - wage immigrant workers.

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

And she is much more likely to either have knowledgeable breastfeeding support in her social circles or, if the breastfeeding specialist - to - mother ratio is similar to that of a wealthy nation, those breastfeeding supports are not having to compete with rampant cultural influence from formula companies and other cultural breastfeeding hurdles, such as unpaid maternity leave.

India benefits directly from the economic ties with wealthy nations, and leaving the Commonwealth would disenfranchise millions of Indians living as Commonwealth Citizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth citizens the vote.

We find it unacceptable that at a time when the Akufo Addo government continues to lament significant shortfalls in revenue and in the face of astronomical duty payments by Ghanaian importers, personnel of the Armed Forces of the wealthiest nation on earth would be exempted from tax and levy payments and in such generous proportions.

Plastics, so cheaply and easily produced, offered salvation from the haphazard and uneven distribution of natural resources that had made some nations wealthy, left others impoverished, and triggered countless devastating wars.

That's a point that developing nations are particularly keen to see from wealthy ones, given that the emissions cuts for the Paris deal will be voluntary and self - determined by each government.

A deep dive into the numbers reveals the U.S. lagging behind other wealthy and even middle - income nations in wide - ranging aspects of health, from preterm birth and maternal mortality rates to life expectancy.

The district also includes students from both low - income and wealthy households and also is one of the nation's most desegregated systems, a product of a 1970s court - order merging of city and suburban districts to further desegregation.

Traffic fumes cost rich countries $ 0.8 trillion a year In 34 wealthy nations, the smog from roads accounts for half of the $ 1.7 trillion cost of air pollution

From emerging giants such as Brazil and China to poor countries in Africa, developing nations are demanding that wealthy countries ramp up funding and create a viable path to this goal.

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

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

From these subtle yet powerful opening scenes (it's the poor and the disenfranchised who fight for the wealthy and powerful), The Manchurian Candidate explores a multitude of political «issues» to a lesser or greater extent: the ill that is committed under the guise of defending a nation; the behind - the - scenes machinations of any country's political process; the unpalatable relationship between entertainment, money and politics, and most specifically, the enormous influence big business has on politics and politicians.

This secretly wealthy, peaceful and advanced African nation has always avoided interference in the outside world but a different view is represented from within by Nakia (Lupita Nyong «o) and without by mysterious enemy Erik Killmonger (Michael B Jordan) before events force change.

Students can consider the responsibility that wealthy nations have toward impoverished and disrupted nations — and toward migrants and refugees from those nations.

Students can consider the responsibility that wealthy nations have toward impoverished and disrupted nations and, specifically, toward migrants and refugees from those nations.

In less than two decades, Chile rose from its position as the country with the seventh highest income in Latin America to the wealthiest nation in the region.

The Obama administration on Friday said legislation passed this week by Republicans on the House education panel would rob vital federal dollars from the nation's poorest schools and redirect them to wealthier schools.

Nearly $ 2.3 million from wealthy charter school advocates fueled the nation's most expensive school board elections in Los Angeles last spring, but those donors and their contributions were never disclosed to voters until months after the election, a review of records shows.

From ancient times until the present, in nations both wealthy and developing, the most market - like education systems have been the most efficient, produced the highest academic achievement, created the least social conflict, and been the most responsive to the evolving needs of parents and students.

But data from Nevada, consistently ranked at the bottom in the nation for student achievement, quickly showed that a vast majority of applicants were not from low - income areas, but the wealthiest neighborhoods in Reno and Las Vegas.

«The 51 - to - 50 vote elevates Ms. DeVos — a wealthy donor from Michigan who has devoted much of her life to expanding educational choice through charter schools and vouchers, but has limited experience with the public school system — to be steward of the nation's schools.

So I vow to NOT REST until I'm penniless and can suckle from the treasure provided by our nation's «wealthy» to put food in my children's bellies and some refundable tax credits in my banking account.

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House Democrats looking to spare millions of middle - class families from the expensive bite of the alternative minimum tax are considering adding a surcharge of 4 percent or more to the tax bills of the nation's wealthiest households.

If we can just take a moment from our business meetings, money making, material accumulation, and exotic holidays to notice, we will realise that if the developed nations do not start providing financial assistance, technology transfers, infrastructure, education and debt relief to developing nations, the «wealthy» lifestyle enjoyed by Betty et al will soon perish as well.

The outcomes from these talks remain in doubt and other questions fester, like to what will the U.S. commit to?For an effective climate deal at December's Copenhagen Climate Summit, the world's wealthiest nations, the G8 countries, who are at the core of the MEF, need to take the lead both at MEF and when they meet in L'Aquila, Italy for the G8 Summit next month.

Just three years after the world's nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, a push was initiated to move from that agreement's aspirational goals for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases to hard targets and timetables for wealthier countries.

Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, last captured the nation's attention with his passionate sort - of - filibuster that took on the rising income inequality gulf in America, and skewered a political culture that increasingly favors the wealthy and corporate interests.

They state, in other words, that their results have direct bearing on the global warming issues, issues currently before governments faced with heavy lobbying from wealthy environmentalist groups, and the United Nations, which just this year will arrange around 38 meetings in 17 countries to push the theme, not counting the other enormous resources they have devoted to the theme that humans are destroying the planet.

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