Sentences with phrase «including wealthy countries»

«Transgressing a boundary increases the risk that human activities could inadvertently drive the Earth System into a much less hospitable state, damaging efforts to reduce poverty and leading to deterioration of human wellbeing in many parts of the world, including wealthy countries», said Professor Steffen.

The U.S. should rethink its overemphasis on military approaches, and Europe should honor its unmet commitments of aid to this region, but other nations — including the wealthy countries of the Middle East and new donors such as India and China — can also help turn the tide.

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It does includes a wide circle of wealthy Russians though that run some of the country's biggest companies, including the heads of Russia's two biggest banks Sberbank and VTB, metals magnates and the boss of state gas monopoly Gazprom.

«The dip in life satisfaction occurs around the age of 45 until 54, and is seen across many wealthy English - speaking countries, including the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia.»

Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how to distribute responsibility for the $ 100 - billion in annual aid that wealthy nations have promised to give poor countries to enable them to adjust to climate impacts.

The fact is everybody, wealthy, middle class and lower class included, are going to need to pitch in to fix the budget crisis the country faces.

The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized democracies that apply the latest scientific evidence to support and facilitate normal, physiological birth; deal appropriately with complications; and generate excellent birth outcomes — including psychological satisfaction for the mother.

When the French government recently attempted to introduce a 75 % income tax rate (for earnings over $ 1 million per annum) there were high profile cases of wealthy individuals threatening to flee the country, including the actor Gérard Depardieu (who followed through).

Though the original email suggested that Romney and Republican elites were the target (it included lines like «we need a bold Reagan conservative to debate Obama» and «this campaign is going to continue to rely on millions of patriots from across the country rather than just a handful of wealthy donors and bundlers»), a subsequent message focused on the incumbent:

That pact was abandoned by the U.S. Senate because it imposed emissions cuts on wealthy countries but let developing nations — including China — off the hook by allowing them to make voluntary cuts in exchange for financial support.

But even the wealthiest countries face problems in maternal health, including the U.S., where 17 women die per 100,000 live births.

The country's worst areas for antibiotic misuse include deprived areas in Essex, Lincolnshire and Norfolk, as well as wealthy Chelsea

What's surprising is that half of the world's countries — including wealthy and growing middle - income nations — still struggle to extend quality care so that it reaches all women.

UNESCO calls on governments to reverse the decline in physical education (PE) investment that has been observed in recent years in many parts of the world, including some of the wealthiest countries.

Even if they open in the most deprived parts of England, it will be difficult to establish catchment areas which do not include wealthier suburbs, especially as some of the poorest areas of the country exist within larger cities and metropolitan regions where deprivation can vary greatly between postcodes.

The Program for International Student Assessment, commonly known as PISA, was administered to 15 - year - olds in 65 countries and school systems by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based group that includes the world's wealthiest nations.

Along the way, several others join them, including Fineboy, a teenager who had joined the country's militants to protest foreign countries taking Nigerian oil; 16 - year - old Isoken, who is searching for her parents; and Oma, a woman escaping her wealthy husband, an oil industry employee who — as described in one of the novel's many great lines — treats her like expensive shoes, «to be polished and glossed but, at the end of the day, to be trodden on.»

I really want to be certain I share with you a 2013 report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research on a study of the world's wealthiest countries, including 16 in Europe as well as Australia, Canada, Japan and New Zealand.

Equally important were the wealthy industrialists of America's gilded age, including Henry Clay Frick, Samuel H. Kress, Andrew W. Mellon, and Joseph E. Widener, who sought to revamp the country's cultural landscape by collecting these masterpieces and giving them to museum collections for the public.

Major museums — including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art — are some of the country's biggest and wealthiest art institutions.

He listed areas where deals might be reached, including: finding ways for wealthy countries to get emissions credits by paying for the protection of forests in poorer nations; the Clean Development Mechanism, a system for encouraging other kinds of investments that cut poor - country emissions; and systems for sharing technology.

But late Tuesday, Bali time, the United States bluntly refused to consider language — even in the nonbinding preamble — that included any specific numbers for how much overall emissions from wealthy countries would need to be cut to have a chance of avoiding the worst climate dangers.

More than 300,000 refugees fled severe drought, conflict and famine in southern Somalia in 2011 into Ethiopia and Kenya (William Davies / AFP / Getty Images) That's why, in recent years, many of the world's wealthier nations — including the United States, Germany, Britain, and Japan — have promised billions of dollars in aid to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of global warming and switch over to cleaner energy sources.

Many countries, wealthy ones included, are already consuming more food than they can sustainably produce themselves.

As Indur Goklany has shown, even assuming that the climate models on which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accurately predict (rather than exaggerate by 2 to 3 times) the warming effect of added CO2 in the atmosphere, people the world over, and especially in developing countries, will be wealthier in warmer than in cooler scenarios, making them less vulnerable than today to all risks — including those related to climate.

The countries still have major issues to hash out, including how to handle the billions of dollars to be funneled from wealthy nations to poorer ones to help them adapt to climate change and develop cleaner sources of energy.

The cities most at risk in richer nations include Miami, Boston and Nagoya, while cities in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Ivory Coast are among those most in danger in less wealthy countries.

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.

Thanks to mass torts cases arising out of things like cigarettes and asbestos, the association's membership includes some of the wealthiest lawyers in the country.

The richest one - fifth of the population, including wealthy minorities in poor countries consume energy and resources at a rate that providing a comparable lifestyle to the rest of the world's population would require the resources of four planets the size of Earth.