Sentences with phrase «island nations and the world»

Though it may be a number of years before your life is personally impacted by climate change, for people in low - lying island nations and the world's great river deltas rising sea levels and saltwater ruining land is already a fact of life.

Though it may be a number of years before your life is personally impacted by climate change, for people in low - lying island nations and the world's great river deltas rising sea levels and saltwater ruining land

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Australia boasts one of world's highest life - expectancy rates, with the island - nation's inhabitants spending more than $ 8 billion a year on health and wellness.

Many nations around the world find themselves in a delicate balancing act between U.S. and Chinese interests, but one island nation perhaps typifies that struggle.

Consequently, although Jesus himself had lived in the Near East, it was as a religion of Europe that his message came to the nations of the world and the islands of the sea — a religion of Europe both in the sense of a religion from Europe and, often, a religion about Europe as well.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United StWorld War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United Stworld, the United States.

The Nation of Qatar, roughly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island, is the world's leading producer of natural gas and has the highest per capita income of any country in the Arab world.

Kevin Prosch prophesied to me in 1994 that «the British invasion is going to happen and you've got three years to prepare for it», so I knew the time was coming when the songs would leave the island and bless the nations of the world.

Yet this island nation is also heavily dependent on food imports, and the combination of steep tariffs and rising world prices could prove difficult for policymakers once the impact is felt by consumers and business owners.

The summit, jointly organised by the United Nations, the World Bank Group, and the French Government in partnership with non-governmental organisations concerned about reversing the negative effects of climate change, like Bloomberg Philanthropies, holds at the eco-friendly La Seine Musicale, situated on the picturesque Seguin Island in western Paris.

That means maintaining the necessary common standards and frameworks for our own domestic market, empowering the UK as an open, trading nation to strike the best trade deals around the world, and protecting the common resources of our islands.

The low - lying island nation offers the scientists a unique opportunity to reconstruct climate conditions during previous periods of varying sea levels to help scientists better understand how future climate change will the effect the 1,000 km - long archipelago and low - lying coastal areas all around the world.

In a recent published statement, Tomas Kaberger, JREF's executive board chairman, said Japan's renewable energy expansion has provided «a bright future» for the island nation of 127 million people and world's third - largest stand - alone economy.

Of the major flag of convenience nations, only Liberia, the Marshall Islands and Antigua and Barbuda — which together hold about 17 per cent of the world's shipping tonnage — have ratified.

The World Wildlife Fund has called this nation «by far the most biologically rich and diverse island in the Caribbean.»

The island nation has been the home of two Nobel laureates, Arthur Lewis and Derek Walcott, and so can claim the distinction of being the nation with the most such honorees per capital in the world.

In a feat of engineering that would likely be impossible even in a world where a large majority of the population isn't dead and resources aren't limited to two island nations, the massive structure is like an amusement park ride that drops straight into the Earth, through the planet's core, and comes up the other side.

Younger players can learn about world hunger and the challenges of relief work from this United Nations World Food Programme game as they guide food - aid missions to the imaginary island of Sheworld hunger and the challenges of relief work from this United Nations World Food Programme game as they guide food - aid missions to the imaginary island of SheWorld Food Programme game as they guide food - aid missions to the imaginary island of Sheylan.

The United States is a nation of immigrants, many of whom came through Ellis Island, and their ancestry comes from all over the world.

Nonetheless, Japan's 373,000 July vehicle sales made the island nation the world's third - largest market for cars and trucks.

Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end, each with a separate vision for his tropical paradise, and each in search of power and adventure as the United States and the USSR acted out the world's tensions in their island nations.

In the winter months, this small island nation is transformed into a magical world of black lava fields blanketed in snow, waterfalls flowing amid shimmering ice, and night skies painted with the northern lights and their great cascades of color.

The rich history of different nations gave life to a fascinating place such as Curacao, the largest island in the Netherlands Antilles designated as an UNESCO World Heritage, for its idyllic beaches, underwater gardens of coral reefs, and an intriguing mix of cultural and architectural heritage.

As you consider these budget travel tips for the island nation of St. Lucia, you'll be struck by the fact that this place appears to have been separated from the South Pacific: towering mountains of volcanic origin, pristine, secluded beaches and a feeling that you're on the other side of the world.

They exchanged ideas for more joint approaches as island nations dependent on tourism, and they all agreed on the need for long - haul tourism destinations such as the Caribbean islands and the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main inislands and the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main inIslands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industry.

In the late 90s, the island was declared a Marine National Park as well as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

2006 Primitivism Revisited, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England William Hogarth, Musee du Louvre, Paris, France; travelled to Tate Britain, London, England; Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain Transvideo, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA MASCARADA / MASQUERADE, DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain DRESSCODE, Historisches und Volkerkundemuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland Space is the Place, Independent Curators International, New York, USA Los Usos de la Pintura II, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico (curated by Julieta González) Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, California, USA Africa Remix, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada Contemporary Commonwealth, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia A Historic Occasion, Artists Making History, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, USA East Wing Collection No. 7 Culture Bound, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London, England Around The World In Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts and South London Gallery, London, England Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York, USA Artificial Afrika, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, USA (curated by Vernon Reid and C. Daniel Dawson)

With roots dating back to 1823, the Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums in the United States, with a collection representing nearly every culture, ranging from some of the most important ancient Egyptian works in the nation; to the arts of the Pacific Islands, Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; to American and European art; to international contemporary works.

2006 Primitivism Revisited, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA 2006 RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA 2006 Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England 2006 William Hogarth, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France; travelled to Tate Britain, London, England; Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain 2006 Transvideo, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2006 MASCARADA / MASQUERADE, DA2 — Domus Artium 2002, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain 2006 DRESSCODE, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland 2006 Space is the Place, Independent Curators International, New York, USA 2006 Los Usos de la Pintura II, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico (curated by Julieta González) 2006 Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, California, USA 2006 Africa Remix, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 2006 Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 2006 A Historic Occasion, Artists Making History, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, USA 2006 East Wing Collection No. 7 Culture Bound, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London, England 2006 Around The World In Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts and South London Gallery, London, England 2006 Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York, USA 2006 Artificial Afrika, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, USA (curated by Vernon Reid and C. Daniel Dawson)

Providence, Rhode Island — based artist Dave Cole blurs the lines between homespun and manufactured, innocent and subversive, nostalgic and postindustrial in his knitted, quilted, and hand - sewn sculptures that range from three - inch - tall Kevlar booties to a 450 - square - foot American flag quilt stitched together from the red, white, and blue areas of the «192 Flags of the World» — the official United Nations set.

Viewing the tapes of the Japanese killing of dolphins on U-tube and reading the phony research that they have conjured and shoveled to the rest of world has led me to conclude that this insular island is home to the cruelest nation on earth.

In Bali I was on the Delegations of Jamaica (my home island and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration proisland and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration proIsland Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration project).

The low - lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati is one of the parts of the world most threatened by climate change and rising sea levels.

This guidance document showcases how the world's smallest island nations are now using new climate prediction tools to boost their economies and enhance livelihoods in areas as diverse as renewable energy, agriculture and national economic planning.

In December 2009 the islands stalled talks at United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, fearing some other developing countries were not committing fully to binding deals on a reduction in carbon emission, their chief negotiator stated «Tuvalu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, and our future rests on the outcome of this meeting.»

Since then, Pachauri has raised the specter of large - scale population displacement and the existential threat that global warming poses to low - lying island nations, while arguing that large, industrializing countries such as China and India will not act on the issue before the Western world curbs its own greenhouse gas emissions.

The latest study from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) put the inevitability of drastic global warming in the starkest terms yet, stating that major impacts on parts of the world — in particular Africa, Asian river deltas, low - lying islands and the Arctic — are unavoidable and the focus must be on adapting life to survive the most devastating changes.

With sea level rise slowly swallowing Pacific island nations and warming sea and air temperatures exacerbating droughts and floods around the world, we're closer than we've ever been to a climate change - triggered migration event.»

The news is particularly troubling for my country, the Maldives — the world's lowest lying island chain — and for other coastal and island nations that sit just [continue reading...]

In addition to academia, Mona has worked as a researcher for the case Sarayaku vs. Ecuador in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a policy analyst for an NGO that lobbied the United Nations on behalf of small island states who face sea level rise, and an assistant contributor to a World Bank Report on Climate change and water distribution.

Then in 2011 sharks sanctuaries came fast and furious: Honduras became the first nation in the Americas to create a shark sanctuary, followed soon after by Chile and the Bahamas; then Tokelau in the Pacific declared a sanctuary in its waters; finally the Marshall islands created the world's largest sanctuary, spanning a total area larger than the country of Mexico.

«The International Energy Agency projects that, unless societies begin building alternatives to carbon - emitting energy technologies over the next five years, the world is doomed to a warmer climate, harsher weather, droughts, famine, water scarcity, rising sea levels, loss of island nations, and increasing ocean acidification.

For people in the developed world, the arcane language and wonky procedures of the United Nations» climate change negotiations can obscure the existential threat global warming poses to low - lying islands and countries that permanently teeter on the edge of drought and famine.

«There is a critical need to ramp up pre-2020 emissions reductions especially by developed countries, whose low Paris pledges will lead us to a 3.5 °C world which is a death trap for Africa and island nations among others», said Asad Rehman from Friends of the Earth International.

The lack of adequate, safe and sustainable waste management has been one of the most critical environmental challenges facing the world's developing countries; island nations in particular must grapple with growing consumption and finite space for waste disposal.

This report was drafted by a working group of United Nations entities, the World Bank, and other stakeholders to suggest a common understanding of the blue economy; to highlight the importance of such an approach, particularly for small island developing states and coastal least developed countries; to identify some of the key challenges its adoption poses; and to suggest some broad next steps that are called for in order to ensure its implementation.

Since many think that human - produced carbon dioxide is warming the planet and contributing to sea level rise, they wanted to make it clear that if the world doesn't do something to curb emissions, their island nation could soon be underwater.

AFP is reporting that Denmark has agreed to sponsor the Maldives» trip: Saying that as the Maldives will be one of the nations worst affected by climate change, Denmark has ponied up $ 2.5 million in funds so that the world's poorest nations and low - lying island states will be able to attend the summit.

The region of the world projected to suffer most is the Northwest Pacific, which features the strongest storms on earth — Pacific super-typhoons that slam Japan, the Philippines, and other nearby nations and islands.

Despite widespread talk of population decline, it is important to emphasize that the only countries in the world to have experienced any declines beyond ∼ 1 % have all been associated with the special circumstances of the collapse of the former Soviet Bloc (and some microstates, such as a few island nations), and even in these cases, migration has played a major role in population changes.