Sentences with phrase «help poor nations»

That means Graham could help or hurt Obama's push for $ 3 billion for the Green Climate Fund, an international initiative to help poor nations battle global warming.

It stagnated because the rich countries were unwilling to either reduce their own emissions significantly or pledge meaningful funding to help poor nations transition to greener economies.

The World Bank has also urged an end to fossil fuel subsidies, as a way to help poor nations adapt to climate change (though the World Bank figure on how much is spent on subsidies is markedly lower than the IEA's; I'd trust the latter's).

You already probably purchase a carbon offset for all your flights, but would you pay a surcharge of about 1 % on long - haul flights if that money would be used to help poor nations adapt to climate change?

Nearly 200 nations agreed at major climate talks last year in Cancun, Mexico, to raise $ 100 billion annually from 2020 to help poor nations fight climate change.

Countries are falling short in delivering pledged finance to the Green Climate Fund, which aims to help poor nations respond to climate change.

The US representative Jonathan Pershing claimed that the United Sates was making «enormous» efforts to slow global warming and help the poor nations most affected by it.

They will also seek agreement on how much rich countries should pay to help poor nations to deal with climate change.

And only 20 per cent of the fast start finance has been allocated to projects that will help poor nations adapt to a changing climate.

This could have significant impact on monies that would be otherwise available to help poor nations with such dire emergencies such as health care or nutrition.

They include, among many others, principles on what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, who is responsible for reasonable adaptation needs of those people at greatest risk from climate damages in poor nations that have done little to cause climate change, should high - emitting nations help poor nations obtain climate friendly energy technologies, and what responsibilities should high - emitting nations have for refugees who must flee their country because climate change has made their nations uninhabitable?

I sometimes toy with the idea of some kind of grand package, one in which we'd help poor nations protect the environment in return for responsible behavior.

The administration also suggested eliminating language in the draft calling for «sufficient, predictable, additional and sustainable financial resources» to help poor nations adapt to climate change, on the grounds that it is vague.

Included in that bill is funding to help poor nations to «adapt» to climate change.

He said the $ 10 billion Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help poor nations address warming «should only be the beginning» of the wealthy world's commitment.

And this year's negotiations must produce a road map toward the $ 100 billion a year by 2020 that developed countries have promised to raise to help poor nations cope with warming.

Their purpose is not to help the poorer nations but to domi.em culturally and economically

The EU has said that there should be a $ 150 billion annual package of public and private finance by 2020 to help poorer nations develop green industries and adapt to climate change.

Proponents of demand - side climate action are already talking about a $ 100 billion climate fund to help poorer nations adapt to the results of global warming.

China has led the way in trying to persuade developed countries to set up financing mechanisms to help poorer nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change.

Prodipto Ghosh of the Indian delegation berated wealthy countries for their «refusal» to «experience a minuscule loss of profits» to help poorer nations cope.

«It may be better to some extent for a rich nation to help a poor nation develop clean energy infrastructure than to replace it's own ``... includes building designs, urban planning, appliances, etc..

531 Patrick said,» It may be better to some extent for a rich nation to help a poor nation develop clean energy infrastructure than to replace it's own»

Mr. Obama also said that wealthy countries should provide «financial and technical assistance» to help poorer nations pursue low - emissions development, and to adapt to the consequences of climate change.

Not exact matches

Oh, but according to Ron Paul, the churches are going to help pay the medical bills for the Nation's poor.

Yet here, perhaps, is the best way in which richer nations can effectively help the poorer ones.

Take poor nations, for instance, there are no government handouts in third world countries, yet the church finds a way to help the needy.

On the whole, those Protestants who favor the national system want to improve the quality and quantity of help to the poor, insuring that in an affluent nation such as ours noone goes hungry, unclothed, or homeless.

This reality helps us understand Henry's exasperated incredulity at the spectacle of the nation becoming richer and richer while its public realm became poorer and poorer — his deep - seated anger at the inconceivably extensive degradation of aesthetic experience in postwar America.

«If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus is just as selfish as we are or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition.

As responsible members of the human family, we all should support governmental, United Nations, and church - sponsored efforts to help families in poor nations acquire the food, shelter, medical help, and education which will allow them to use their full God - given potentiaNations, and church - sponsored efforts to help families in poor nations acquire the food, shelter, medical help, and education which will allow them to use their full God - given potentianations acquire the food, shelter, medical help, and education which will allow them to use their full God - given potentialities.

Each year BFW, based in the nation's capital with 44,000 members across the country, takes on a legislative target aimed at helping poor and hungry people.

When was the last time Bauchmann proposed how to turn our nation from the wrath of God by using the trillions we throw down the war machine toilet to instead help our homeless, sick and poor?

The former Iron Curtain Bible smuggler had traded the life of a Swedish Baptist missionary for that of a commercial well - driller — a better way, he believed, to help the Central African Republic (CAR) escape the ranks of the world's 10 poorest nations.

If we are a «Christian Nation» as the Right insists, then why do they have a problem with government helping, the poor and those without healthcare.

If this is going to be a christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we are going to have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it» — Steven Colbert

«If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.»

For example, it helps support the Food Bank of Greater Albany, which is one of the largest food banks in the nation that assist the poor and homeless.

Labour should not be about «helping the poor»; «one - nation» conservatism is as capable of doing this as social democracy.

He is expected to contrast downtown and waterfront development touted in the mayor's campaign brochures with crumbling East Side neighborhoods that help rank Buffalo as one of the nation's poorest cities.

Think about what we can do in all those poor communities where you still have one of the highest poverty rates in the nation and the help we could do to people and the effect you could have on humanity.

The common thread of Democratic history, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama, has been an abiding faith in the judgment of hardworking American families, and a commitment to helping the excluded, the disenfranchised, and the poor, strengthen our nation by earning themselves a piece of the American Dream.

In actuality, we have poor nations around the world enslaved by the International Monetary Fund, locked into trade blocs that help the U.S. at everyone else's expense and on and on.

Special help for Rochester Calling Rochester one of the poorest cities in the nation, Cuomo wants to create a Rochester Anti-Poverty Task Force.

The Green Party and I are running on a progressive agenda of helping the poor and the middle class gain democratic control of society so that we can equitably distribute the wealth that is being produced, and to stop the plutocracies of this nation and world from exploiting Earth's resources anymore than they already have.

On Monday, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi invited 120 - odd nations to join a new International Agency for Solar Policy and Application, aimed at helping poorer countries in the tropics develop solar power.

Rich and poor were deadlocked on Wednesday over how to raise aid to help developing countries cope with the damaging effects of global warming, in a setback at United Nations climate talks in Warsaw seeking progress towards a 2015 accord.

But it's also a sign of how much of the developing world is willfully making itself more vulnerable to climate change, even as poor nations ask rich ones to spend hundreds of billions per year on helping them to adapt.

Still, Ogden noted, a number of key issues central to the 2015 agreement remain unresolved — like what legal form the deal will take, how countries will prove they are making progress on mitigation targets and how much money wealthy nations will pony up to help poorer ones cut carbon and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

The CDM has since 2005 helped channel more than $ 315 billion to poor nations to help them cut their CO2 emissions or adapt to the effects of climate change.