Sentences with phrase «helping developing countries»

After studying International Relations at Stanford, Tam earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School and set her sights on helping developing countries through global project finance.

Adaptation may serve multiple purposes, including helping developing countries boost education, health, and economic development.

«That's what I'm eager to find out,» says Brian Tucker, president of GeoHazards International, a nonprofit organization based in Menlo Park, Calif., that focuses on helping developing countries reduce their vulnerability to natural hazards.

This activity report covers GEF's work in helping developing countries expand their use of clean energy and reduce their consumption of fossil fuel.

Montreal has done all of its work through top - down phase - outs, with industrialized nations helping developing countries pay for the costs.

The other half of the GCF's money will go towards helping developing countries curb their emissions, by decarbonising their energy and transport infrastructure.

As attentive readers will recall, the conference concluded that fighting AIDS should be the top global priority in helping developing countries and also that climate change mitigation was a waste of money.

The article also implicitly argues that helping developing countries tackle climate change is a bad deal for UK taxpayers.

How about helping the developing countries develop and solve an ongoing humanitarian crisis now that oh by the way is truly polluting the environment?

What is clear though is that we are responsible for helping the developing countries reconstruct their economies.

The decisions also includes a mechanism for helping developing countries deal with loss and damage from climate change.

It holds that countries that historically caused the recent atmospheric carbon dioxide build - up must lead in cutting their emissions, while helping developing countries eventually do likewise, by pouring trillions of dollars in cash and free technology into the Green Climate Fund for supposed climate change adaptation, mitigation and compensation.

One of the goals of the four - year study is helping developing countries to develop robust monitoring, reporting and verifying (MRV) systems in order to accurately measure their effectiveness in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

First, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by helping developing countries switch from high - polluting fossil fuels to wind, solar and other renewable sources of energy.

The second is the degree to which the world will succeed in limiting climate change, while helping developing countries adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects.

The president has given indications that helping developing countries move in a sustainable direction would benefit not only the U.S., but also the world.

Writing in the journal Science, researchers note that helping developing countries» small farmers find ways to make better use of marginal land and cope with overfarmed fields is key to feeding the world's poorest people.

Plus, the company gives back through a partnership with Thirst Relief International helping developing countries get the water they need.

More than a # 624m of the UK's aid budget goes every year to the EU's programmes for helping developing countries.

We can forge trade deals and partnerships with nations across the globe, helping developing countries to grow and benefiting from faster and better access to new markets.

So, I was looking on your website and I saw that Nurture - Elle has a passion for helping developing countries.

Hollywood actor and water.org co-founder Matt Damon discusses helping developing countries through safe, clean water infrastructure.

Internationally, Canada has also pledged $ 2.65 billion in climate finance funds to help developing countries transition to low carbon, climate - resilient economies, including $ 1.8 billion to leverage private - sector investments.

As Jose Lutzenberger when Minister of Environment in Brazil, said: «If development is to be the continuation of the present mode and we must help the developing countries to reach our level of affluence, while the developed countries must still continue developing to even higher levels of consumption, then what we are doing is suicidal» (1991, p. 11).

Although incredibly obvious once stated, it did challenge my view on global food security as I have often been quick to think «how can we help developing countries with food waste» when in fact this issue is much closer to home and in fact is in our own fridges!

Improve Ghana's business climate to enable investment in job creation so that our people will stay at home to help develop the country and its economy.

In the long term, Paruch would like to help develop his country's chemical industry.

The $ 100 billion a year was supposed to help developing countries adapt to changes being wrought by climate change, and to help them bypass fossil fueled development in favor of cleaner alternatives.

But he pointed out that it concluded that less than a fifth of the $ 62 billion went to projects designed exclusively to help developing countries adapt to climate change.

Following up on discussions in the regular negotiations, the accord would establish a start - up fund of roughly US$ 30 billion over the next three years to help developing countries prepare for a warmer climate, integrate new technologies into sustainable development plans and protect their forests.

«Current levels of agricultural research are not adequate to help developing countries to adapt to climate change,» says IFPRI water resources expert Claudia Ringler.

Can you imagine telling this current Congress that we need half a trillion dollars» worth of technology transfers to help developing countries go through the transition?

Small Steps Diplomats hope there will be some progress on funding to help developing countries most at risk from the effects of global warming, particularly in Africa and small island states.

The third is how much cash the rich world will put into a fund to help developing countries adapt to climate change and invest in cutting their own emissions.

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.

This includes making further payments to the Green Climate Fund, set up to help developing countries battle and cope with climate change.

Without such policing the US has said it will not contribute to the proposed $ 100 billion a year fund to help developing countries cope with climate change.

Now, a cheap and simple method that can easily detect the fungus among us without sophisticated lab equipment could help developing countries save millions of lives by diagnosing infections and finding contaminated crops and food.

And, referring to his public health background, Kim noted that some of the discussions this week focus on ways to help developing countries build comprehensive, universal health care systems.

He adds that advanced countries need to strive for sustainable consumption and help developing countries adopt advanced pollution control technologies, whereas developing countries need to take action to reduce local emissions.

Plans by rich nations to add $ 100 billion of new money in the next decade to help developing countries cut emissions are evaporating.

But as anyone who has watched the past 15 years of international climate negotiations can attest, most countries are still reluctant to take meaningful steps to lower their production of greenhouse gases, much less address issues such as how to help developing countries protect themselves from the extreme effects of climate change.

The world's biggest carbon emitters agreed that the world should limit warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, and raise $ 100 billion annually by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change.

The Copenhagen Accord, agreed by major economies including the US and China, made a commitment to limit the rise in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius and raise 100 billion US dollars annually by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change.

Sweet potatoes could also help developing countries combat nutritional deficiencies.

«Why should a rich country help a developing country to get knowledge through eLearning?»

My article intends to raise a debate about how technologically advanced countries which cultivate the eLearning method should help developing countries that have no technological resources for education.

Without proper understanding and implementation of aid effectiveness measures, any effort to help developing countries is bound to be plagued by confusion, waste, and corruption, if not outright failure.

It is easy to speculate that if no one is capturing and altering the illusive strays that produce these orphans, then enterprising rescuers and shelter directors could help developing countries become breeding grounds for stocking US shelters.

Rather than spending money in remedial programs, we would do well to help developing countries with their infrastructures: sewage treatment, clean water, minimal electricity, agricultural supplies, etc...