Sentences with phrase «if rich countries»

There is a tiny remaining hope for COP17, but only if we soon see a 1999 Seattle - style move by African delegates who know their constituents will be fried if the rich countries and SA have their way.

However, as I have emphasized repeatedly, this problem can not be solved if rich countries act alone.

If the rich countries what to help the world cut greenhouse emissions, the rich countries should develop a cost effective substitute for fossil fuels that is appropriate to be used all over the world.

If the rich countries will just do that, China will consent to begin negotiating some kind of «legally binding» treaty after 2020.

Setting a long - term target for 2050 is useful, but I think it would give investors much more clarity if rich countries would indicate where they want to be in 2020 or 2030.»

Poor countries say industrial powers, which have spent a century or more benefiting from fossil fuels while adding billions of tons of heat - trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, owe them both financial assistance in dealing with rising seas or shifting rains and a stable climate, which they say can be achieved only if rich countries commit to deep prompt cuts in their emissions.

Despite the unified positions stated in Dhaka, you'll see increasing divisions among poor, vulnerable countries in the next few years, particularly if rich countries finally start ramping up the flow of money and technical help pledged in past climate agreements.

If you are so concerned about the world's poor, then I think it would be only fair if the rich countries (who created the mess) went cold turkey on carbon so the poor still can use cheap fossil fuel.

I would be good if rich countries like US invest more in NGO's and other organizations to improve the lot of young people in poor countries instead of wasting loads of money on destructive technologies that kill millions of innocent civilians.

First, Ramanan Laxminarayan of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy in Washington DC and his colleagues calculate that if rich countries and China cap their use of antibiotics in farming at the global average, overall use in that sector should be 60 per cent lower in 2030.

Not exact matches

Rosling encourages people to use this framework, rather than use labels like «developed» and «developing,» because, as Gates explains, «It's hard to pick up on progress if you divide the world into rich countries and poor countries.

While the rich economies produce more innovation, if total innovation output is divided by input, the list of leading innovative countries looks very different.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

Reportedly one of the 400 richest people in China, the recycling magnate claims to be the No. 1 philanthropist in the country; Chen was reportedly worth $ 740 million in 2012, but he has pledged to give away most, if not all, of his wealth before his death, inspired by Bill Gates» «Giving Pledge.»

If you're looking to retire on one of the world's most beautiful beaches or gorgeous, culturally rich historical cities, you'll want to discover more about these friendly, welcoming, and oh - so affordable countries.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al - Jubeir said on Sunday that Iran must change its «behaviour» towards his country if it wants normal ties with the oil - rich Sunni kingdom.

In fact, the actions of many rich countries here in Warsaw are directly undermining the UNFCCC itself, which is an important multilateral process that must succeed if we are to fix the global climate crisis.

If I took a dollar out of every bank account in the country, I'd be very rich, and most of the victims wouldn't miss it.

That might be true if you did not have Canada and other countries, including our own, are planning to strengthen their Northern Navy's to stake their claims in the melting mineral rich Arctic.

The great Founder of modern liberalism — John Locke — said that in a free country you'd better be rich if you're going to get old, and, unfortunately in some ways, that's probably more true and more difficult than ever.

If abortion was illegal in this country, the rich would be able to afford to go to another country to have an abortion.

We should urgently instigate an inquiry into the resources held abroad by the rich citizens of the peripheral countries and the resultant expropriation, in certain cases, of these resources if they have been gained through means such as theft committed at the expense of the population of the peripheral countries (expropriated wealth should be returned to the people).

FACT: The rich in the country would have been left impoverished if Wall Street hadn't gotten bailed out.

If you aren't rich or don't have a wish to take over the country, vote for Obama and the Dems.

Latest was explosions in India marked as «Islamic Jihadists» and another in Pakistan although I was surprised that it was not marked as «Hindu Jihadists»... That would have had both Great Countries confront each other serving the purpose of other competing nations over the Rich Indian Peninsular... Believe me no nation fall back unless people of her own are traitors to it's nations principals and beliefs for the reason of Hate, Envy, Revenge, or Greeds towards material wealth even if by selling their Dignity and integrity or their family, tribe, community, the nation and the country it wouldn't mean much to them... and those can be found among every level of the one Society...

And if fuel shortages are a bother for us, they are devastating to the poor countries; the energy crisis is widening the gap between the rich and the poor nations of this world at a terrifying pace.

With 1,500 of them out there converting two Chin - amen apiece per annum against an uphill birth rate of 33,000 pagans per day, it will take upward of a million years to make the conversions balance the output and bring the Christianizing of the country in sight to the naked eye; therefore, if we can offer our missionaries as rich a field at home at lighter expense and quite satisfactory in the matter of danger, why shouldn't they find it fair and right to come back and give us a trial?

All goes to show that if Romney becomes President, we'll be a country lead by the rich, for the rich, with lots of advice from Salt Lake City, with the shrinking middle class taking in the shorts and paying all the bills.

If people travel to Mexico or other third - world countries, it will most likely be to take advantage of beautiful beaches and favorable exchange rates rather than to explore the causes of hunger and poverty.16 The majority of people, rich or poor, who actually follow the news rely heavily on major television networks and local newspapers.

This vision, if taken seriously in this country, for example, would lead to more emphasis upon a positive strategy to overcome the growing gap between the rich nations and the poor and less on the dominant negative strategy of containing the enemy by filling him with fear of our power to destroy him.

Once these people have reached «moderate poverty» — average income between one and two dollars a day — then the worst is over; as long as the rich countries do not «advertently or inadvertently set snares along the lower rungs» with protectionist trade barriers and the like, these people should make steady progress, «even if it is uneven and sometimes painfully slow.»

The USA is still one of the largest markets and rich country, so if you want to be part of this country, take care of your country and countrymen / women.

Pushed incessantly by figures like the World Bank's McNamara, the idea that nations could become rich only if they moved to control their population rates became an article of faith among Western and Western - educated intellectuals in Asia — a faith backed up by aid dollars linked to the willingness of recipient countries to develop control measures.

I tried to be punctual in posting but if you've been there you'll understand this: it is a country obsessed with food, layered in such rich cultural dimensions that summing up what they do is quite a challenge.

So to say that medieval peasants fared better in diet than the rich is wrong BUT in the modern context, if you compared eating standards of poor communities and the upper class in countries such as Guatemala or El Salvador, this assumption is more correct.

next season will be very different as I don't think a top 4 is nailed on and if that happens even some of the Wenger supporters may turn sad sad times for a club that has so much history and pride, it's symptematic of this country where the rich don't understand the working class and don't care as long as they make money.

This unique feature of the MDGs recognizes that there are certain actions rich countries must take if poor countries are to achieve goals 1 to 7.

Not sure what you mean about the rich - if there are no deductions, the only loopholes left are to start siphoning money through foreign countries with more lax tax laws, which they're already doing anyone (along with Google, GE, etc..)

And even if the American rich do not follow suit in terms of leaving their country, their incomes might do exactly that.

«What, exactly, would stop the rich or businesses to flee to different countries if a similar tax is passed on the federal level?

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).

«Much of this could have been avoided if our country hadn't been ripped off by super rich refusing to pay their taxes.

The campaign coordinator for the Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC), Dr. Emmanuel Steve Asare Manteaw, has said that district assemblies in resource - rich areas across the country could benefit from the extraction of resources if they conduct an input and output analysis of the activities of the extraction companies.

If Regional Pay were extended across the country it may lead to a situation where those Police Authorities that are «cash rich» can attract all the best candidates and attract transferees from other Forces, by paying them more whilst others will have a constant battle to recruit and more importantly retain officers once they have invested in them.

If we are the richest country in the world we can afford it better than other countries.

Now to understand whether this tax bill (which largely cut taxes for the rich) was something good for the country or not, I need to know if trickle down actually works.

Living in a rich country, even in a relatively precarious situation, also means your children have better odds of getting a good education, medical care if needed and generally living a better life than yourself.

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 economies need to be made, let them address the real divide in this country: that between the rich and the rest.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»