He pleaded for continuing the Tanaloa Dialogue (Fijian for «open conversation») which
includes vulnerable nations and the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters like China and India.
These groups, which
include vulnerable nations such as Bangladesh and Vanuatu, only need provide information on their plans to develop in a low - carbon fashion.
Not exact matches
The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country,
including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the
nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most
vulnerable, and banning fracking.»
The DCCC has
included two New York congresswomen — Nan Hayworth (NY - 19) and Ann Marie Buerkle (NY - 25)-- in a new radio and grassroots campaign that targets potentially
vulnerable House Republicans across the
nation.
«Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country,
including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the
nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most
vulnerable, and banning fracking,» the spokesman said.
America the
Vulnerable by Joel Brenner A public service announcement of the most urgent sort, this engrossing book reveals how our lack of cyber savvy, both as individuals and as a
nation, is exposing us to extraordinary risks,
including viruses that could destroy the power grid, simple hacks that have harvested millions of credit card numbers from retailers, and security breaches that are hemorrhaging classified intelligence through the Net.
(8) Under Article 4 of the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed country parties,
including the United States, committed to «assist the developing country parties that are particularly
vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in meeting costs of adaptation to those adverse effects».
This special report examines challenges and strategies for educating some of the most
vulnerable students in the
nation's schools,
including youths in juvenile detention facilities, immigrant students fearing deportation, homeless students with disabilities, and foster children.
Some (
including, often, teachers unions) accuse charter school advocates of trying to privatize education, wresting it from local control; supporters see charters as offering critical opportunities for some of the
nation's most
vulnerable children.
At a summit in Manila earlier this month, the expanding Climate
Vulnerable Forum,
including 43
nations and 1 billion people, pressed for concrete commitments in Paris from rich countries both to more ambitious emissions cuts and aid.
Also, while poor
nations see the amounts as insufficient, powerful countries,
including China (which long hid behind its status as a developing country), have pledged money and technical aid to help shield the world's most
vulnerable communities from climatic and coastal hazards.
Desirous of building upon the commitment of leaders at the recent United
Nations High - Level Summit on Climate Change in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most
vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments,
including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Position,
Your «we» doesn't seem to
include people in the most
vulnerable regions around the world (e.g. island
nations, delta regions of Africa or Asia, the North).
Second, to help the most
vulnerable countries
including small island
nations adapt to climate change by building barriers against rising seas or developing drought - resilient crops.
The transportation sector in the United States generates a significant share of the
nation's air pollution, threatening the health and lives of millions of people,
including those who are most
vulnerable to harm.
The combustion of fossil fuels and biomass in the residential, commercial and industrial sectors in the United States generates a significant share of the
nation's air pollution, threatening the health and lives of millions of people,
including those who are most
vulnerable to harm.
The production of electricity in the United States generates a significant share of the
nation's air pollution, threatening the health and lives of millions of people,
including those who are most
vulnerable to harm.
So, these
vulnerable nations are urging all Parties to the UNFCCC to «consider and address the health, human rights and security implications of climate change,
including the need to prepare communities for relocation, to protect persons displaced across borders due to climate change - related impacts, and the need to create a legal framework to protect the human rights of those left stateless as a result of climate change.»
The
vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change,
including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods,
including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and
vulnerable countries the world over...»
The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue
includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest
nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor,
vulnerable people around the world.
(8) Under Article 4 of the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed country parties,
including the United States, committed to «assist the developing country parties that are particularly
vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in meeting costs of adaptation to those adverse effects».
We look to President Obama to speak not only of the urgent need for greenhouse gas mitigation, but also of the measures that must be taken domestically and internationally to prepare for the impacts of climate disruption —
including how the US intends to aid the most
vulnerable nations in adaptation.
President Obama should speak not only of the urgent need for greenhouse gas mitigation, but also of the measures that must be taken domestically and internationally to prepare for the impacts of climate disruption —
including how the US intends to aid the most
vulnerable nations in adaptation.
This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some
nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who
include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most
vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most
vulnerable people
nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights
including rights to life and security among others.
This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some
nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who
include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most
vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most
vulnerable people
nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights
including rights to life and security among others.
These features
include: (a) it is a problem caused by some
nations and people emitting high - levels of ghgs in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who
include some of the world's poorest people and who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most
vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, and, (d) to protect the world's most
vulnerable people,
nations must act quickly to limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions.
The most
vulnerable countries of the world,
including many small island
nations, believe they can sustain about half that rate.
The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue
includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests,
nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor,
vulnerable people around the world.
Some
nations»,
including Australia's, commitments to the Green Fund have been taken from existing foreign aid budgets — thus providing no new funds that would represent the
nation's satisfaction of it is obligations to fund adaptation and resilience in
vulnerable developing countries.
These issues
include: (a) the need to determine when the obligation of any
nation is triggered, (b) difficulties in determining which adaptation and compensation needs are attributable to human - induced warming versus natural variability, (c) challenges in allocating responsibilities among all
nations that have emitted ghg above their fair share of safe global emissions, (e) challenges in prioritizing limited funds among all adaptation and compensation needs, (f) needs to set funding priorities in consultation with those who are
vulnerable to climate change impacts as a matter of procedural justice, and (e) the need to consider the capacity of some
nations to fund adaptation and compensation needs.
But as long as the rich
nations — and their big polluters — dictate the terms of the Paris accord, maintain unhealthy fossil fuel subsidies and refuse to establish a long - term market for renewable energy that
includes putting a price on carbon emissions, a world that protects more
vulnerable nations, humans, animals and plants from the impacts of climate change will remain a dream.
A Toronto - based human rights program is urging Canada to stop detaining
vulnerable migrants,
including children and those with mental illness, as Canada is approaching its third Universal Periodic Review on human rights by the United
Nations Human Rights Council.
There's never really a light shone on these places and when we think about who is most
vulnerable, you have to
include the prison population, especially when we know that First
Nations, racialized people and people with mental health disabilities are over-represented.
A Toronto - based human rights group is urging Canada to stop detaining
vulnerable migrants,
including children and those with mental illness, as Canada is approaching its third Universal Periodic Review on human rights by the United
Nations Human Rights Council.