Sentences with phrase «how rich countries»

Both these articles follow the book (a bit) that was written 7 years back and which I have to get hold of — How Rich Countries got Rich.....

«The People Who'll be Most Hurt by Climate Swings Did the Least to Cause Them, Study Says» (Chris Mooney, Washington Post) «There has been a lot of debate about how rich countries can help poor countries to adapt, but they have overlooked this aspect — that the impacts of climate variability change might be worse in the poorer countries,» said Sebastian Bathiany, a climate change researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands who led the research published in Science Advances....»

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN climate secretariat, said the Poznan talks were edging towards an agreement on how rich countries could pay to help developing nations adapt to the effects of climate change.

-- My exposure of political interference with government climate science from 2002 through 2006, — Our ongoing Energy Challenge series, — The Big Melt package from 2005 — My North Pole reports in 2003 (and the resulting New York Times book for younger readers on the changing Arctic), — The «Climate Divide» package this spring revealing how rich countries are already insulating themselves from climate hazards while poor ones most in harm's way are left swinging in the wind...

This pack looks at how rich countries are contributing the most to climate change while poor countries suffer its worst affects.

Not exact matches

It's so painful to see how most of the other resource rich countries have managed to keep the wealth and jobs for generations to come.

One can see how for the rich countries this presents as a «supply shock», raising prices and lowering output.

Economic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country recessions).

«That's how we're going to make our country rich again.»

How far do European action groups and researchers inquire into whether their own standard - of living is dependent on past exploitation and on the present transfer of funds from the poor to the rich countries and the unfair terms of trade?

The look on her face is familiar, her beautiful smile is made agonizing by the realizing of how easily she could have been saved — how many opportunities to rescue her passed by while rich, powerful men in other countries argued about politics and timing.

Despite being the richest man in the Bible, 1 Kings 11 describes how a bad relationship with his many, many wives led Solomon to stop worshipping God and he was punished by having his country torn apart after his death.

City have been both the best consistent team in the league the past 4 years and the biggest underachievers which highlights just how far ahead a team that has entire rich country behind them can be.

Looking at how children eat school lunch in other countries, (which this website has done during the last couple months focusing specifically on France) our «rich» America lacks shamefully behind other industrialized countries in regards to the healthiness of our school menus.

We know where we are with old lefties who declare «we're a rich country» — as though that is just a given, and all politicians need to do is decide how to spend it — and who spit out the word «profit» as if it were a profanity (and as if any of the things they say they want could be paid for without it).

How could a proud and rich country like Ghana put on a humiliating and self - denigrating tag, «Highly Indebted Poor Country» (HIPC), before our external debts could be writtcountry like Ghana put on a humiliating and self - denigrating tag, «Highly Indebted Poor Country» (HIPC), before our external debts could be writtCountry» (HIPC), before our external debts could be written off?

«When the gap in life expectancy between the richest and poorest in our country is now greater than at any time since Queen Victoria was on the throne the question isn't whether the NHS should change, it's how the NHS should change,» Mr Cameron said.

How do you explain why a rich and well endowed country like Nigeria should remain so primitive and underdeveloped in this day and age if not the atrocities of those crooks?

If one of the filthy rich politicians actually thought about how much Aid we hand out to other countries and entitlements we hand out to the Illegal people that are in the country we would be not be in the problem we all have been put in by the filthy rich politicians that have absolutely no idea of whats really going on.

In Paris, developing countries will be asking richer ones to show how they plan to mobilize that amount.

The 1300 - page report, entitled Securing India's Future — Final Technical Report of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, was commissioned in 2000 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to look at how the country should manage its rich biodiversity.

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.

New Scientist looked at how an independent Scotland might reinvest its oil riches, become a high - tech hub, a green beacon — or the sickest country in Europe.

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 the path forward is rife with disputes between rich and poor countries over funding, and how to allocate and enforce emissions reductions.

But poor nations argue that more pressing issues need to be ironed out, for example the overarching dispute between rich and poor countries over how to share efforts to cut emissions, before more market - based mechanisms are developed or the groundwork for a global trading scheme is laid.

The model is the first to consider how the effects of climate change impacts — and the policies designed to address them — will produce very unequal outcomes between the rich and poor in the same country.

He then computed the average income share in countries to compare how much people in poor countries are paying for carbon mitigation compared to those in rich nations.

A study shows how people in Japan and Korea, which habitually include seaweeds into their diets, could be relatively immune to negative effects of high iodine intake, but one of these single seaweed - rich meals could already present health risks to unhabituated people in low - iodine consuming countries.

The delicious food, rich history, gorgeous architecture, and innate understanding of how to enjoy life that Italians are famous for are all liable to turn the most casual of tourists into lifelong fans of the country.

Linking up to Adrienne of The Rich Life in Wine Country and Jill of Everything Just So, showing women in tall boots in How I wear my... tall boots.

As we know, the British Royal family has a rich and storied history of coming into other people's countries and telling them how to live, so it comes as little surprise that they would try to impose a dress code on a group over which they have no power.

● GOD»S OWN COUNTRY, a feature debut by Francis Lee, beautifully conveys how passion can transform lives, telling the rich and sexy story of a hard - drinking Yorkshire lad who keeps his emotions in check until an irrepressible Romanian immigrant comes to help out on the family farm.

It is a film brimming with rich characters, incredible performances, nuanced direction, and a pitch - perfect script, and Rees uses the backdrop of World War II America to highlight how much — and how little — our country has changed in half a century.

It's amazing how much richer a characterization Jones provides as a self - made detective than in his role as a sheriff in the much - decorated No Country for Old Men.

How American schools are making inequality worse The Conversation, October 26, 2015 Study: Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2015

A recent study examined how much of the achievement gap in math between rich and poor 15 - year - old students can be attributed to what material the kids are learning in school, and it found, across 33 countries, that schools are teaching rich kids vastly different math content than poor kids.

Researchers, he says, need «to break the data out and look at a rich set of characteristics and compare how kids are doing in a given state to similar kids around the country, rather than just looking at the average scores.»

Some of your readers should visit a country like Mexico to gain an appreciation of how EVs are just a first world rich mans fantasy.

While not all the rich are the best when it comes to handling money, the richest man in the country knows a thing or two about how to save.

Over the 17 countries they studied, going back to 1900, there was actually a negative correlation between investment returns and growth in GDP per capita, the best measure of how rich people are getting.

Argentina caters for all tastes with equal passion and flair and, travelling through the country by train, it is easy to see how the natural beauty, historic cities and rich culture of the country have beguiled visitors for centuries.

The ads feature various citizens that volunteers may meet throughout the country and their backstories, showing how diverse the elderly community is and the rich companionship they can offer.

I have no idea how this could be seen as remotely compatible with developing countries» longstanding interpretation of «common but differentiated responsibilities» of rich and poor countries under the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

«We have the know - how to consume, in rich countries, only half as much [energy] as we do without lowering our REAL quality of life (REAL does not include unlimited SUVs, 15,000 sq. ft. custom - built houses etc, etc), and to provide everybody, even in the most desperate parts of Africa with enough for a decent life.

-- How much do rich countries that, to a significant extent, built their wealth burning fossil fuels, owe poor ones to help them grow without creating a vast new pulse of emissions from fuel burning?

The graph above, from the Dutch report, shows clearly how relentless overall emissions growth in countries climbing out of poverty (as electrification, manufacturing and mobility expand fossil fuel demand) was not blunted by the recession and is sending them and the rich world (which is getting ever more efficient and exporting manufacturing) toward some kind of carbon common ground.

I have the impression that the rich countries need to agree to those money transfers in some way or another to avoid a climate catastrophe, but I have no idea how to make poorer households in rich countries agree to those transfers.

The issues range from resolving how much the rich North is willing to pay the poor South to boost its resilience to climate hazards to figuring out a trustworthy process for all countries to measure and get credit for domestic actions that trim emissions.

[UPDATE, 5/26: The meeting has ended with what appears to be some agreement on ways for rich countries to help poorer ones limit vulnerability from climate change, but with no shift in views on who needs to cut emissions how much and how fast.