Sentences with phrase «global poverty while»

The good news is that students in the United States can help — and get a real - world lesson in global poverty while they're at it.

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But while the entire MDG process has been basking in the glow of the poverty - reduction results — and talking of eliminating poverty altogether — none of this progress is properly attributable to UN efforts in particular, or the global governance movement in general.

In one of Messiah Complex's more sober moments, Brand points out that while it would cost # 50bn to eradicate global poverty, the super-rich have # 21 trillion sitting in offshore accounts (a culture like that, he argues, needs another Malcolm X).

While the event will have a relaxed atmosphere with worship and food, there are hopes that after some collaboration the attendees will come up with an innovative way to fight against global poverty.

that all these issues — overcrowded cities, unusual and disturbing new weather patterns, the growth of global poverty, the lowering of wages while stock prices soar, the elimination of social services, the destruction of wildlife and wilderness, the protests of Maya Indians in Mexico — are products of the same global policies.

Today's report finds that while the debt cancellation agreed last year is helping deliver essential health and education services, developed countries must step up their efforts if they are to make genuine inroads in tackling global poverty.

Asian American young adults, meanwhile, named family breakdown as the number - one issue, but they felt neighborhood violence was almost equally important, while poverty and global warming tied for third.

This is a type of poverty that Johnson could not foresee: a decline in blue - collar jobs, rooted in global trends, requiring workers to gain skills that schools could not reliably impart, leaving whole communities economically depressed and isolated, while many children were deprived of economically stable and supportive two - parent families, leading to dangerously stalled social mobility and creating divisions of class that are inconsistent with the American ideal.

While there's not much of a prospect for an expanding global market in hard carbon credits like those created under the ailing Kyoto Protocol, this system provides a voluntary means for people or businesses concerned with both climate change and ending energy poverty to have their money do double duty.

The overriding objective would be to raise the global average efficiency of coal - fired power plants and so minimise CO2 emissions which will otherwise be emitted while maintaining legitimate economic development and poverty alleviation efforts.

A short - sighted coal company might decide to start launching critiques of the science of climate change and start having a crack at renewables while at the same time selling its product as some sort of silver bullet that can solve global poverty with a single well - aimed shot.

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.

The UN summit, which marks twenty years since the landmark UN Rio summit in 1992, is being seen an opportunity for world leaders to take action on strengthening environmental protections while reducing global poverty.

The Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework is a Equity Reference Framework that is designed to support an emergency global climate mobilization while, at the same time, preserving the rights of all people to reach a dignified level of sustainable human development free of the privations of poverty.

It is 3 % in this century according to the economic alarmist Lomborg, during which time GDP grows 300 - 700 %, while climate change would have large impacts in poor countries that don't account for much of the global GDP, so that is where the concern about poverty should be.

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In one chapter, Lomborg suggested that while he believed that climate change was real, he doubted the extreme temperature predictions, and claimed that his own cost - benefit analysis indicated that it was not the most pressing problem facing the world compared to poverty, disease and global development.

In addition, the investments would alleviate global poverty and keep stagnating economies humming, while cutting humanity's global ecological footprint nearly in half by 2050 even in the face of rising populations.

Given Canada's leading role in the global mining industry, we call for peaceful demonstrations in front of Canadian embassies across the world in order to show our condemnation of these mining projects that only leave behind desolation, poverty, and death for our people while enriching the few.

Then he launched an international campaign to distract public policy makers by understating the potential devastation of climate change, while setting up a false choice between spending money addressing global warming or spending instead on eradicating poverty or AIDS.