Sentences with phrase «leads wealthy countries»

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He would return from wealthy men's villas moaning to his intimates about how unfair it was that he, with all the responsibilities of leading a G8 country, was so impecunious compared with the super-rich.

Their policies over the last three decades have benefited the extremely wealthy, leading to the greatest income inequality in this country since right before the Great Depression.»

A study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal finds that recessions in wealthy countries can lead to better health habits, as people spend less on alcohol, tobacco and rich food.

The sugar daddies of the foreign college students often take their sugar babies on numerous trips to one of the kind components of Australia, to lead them to acquaint with the wealthy subculture of this country.

The complacency enters from the fact that the U.S. remains a wealthy country, leading to a sense that maybe it is alright just to keep going along as we are.

Cash has become king for a growing number of Canadian investors worried about the uncertain global economy, but the country's wealthiest individuals fear that a greater allocation to cash will only lead to more losses, reports a new online survey by iShares, the exchange - traded fund provider operated by BlackRock Canada.

California languished until the discovery of gold led to the creation of the wealthiest, most diverse state in the country.

One of the country's wealthiest cities and a global industrial powerhouse once, the city's ongoing financial crisis has led to its 2013 bankruptcy, regarded as the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in the history of the country.

The outcomes from these talks remain in doubt and other questions fester, like to what will the U.S. commit to?For an effective climate deal at December's Copenhagen Climate Summit, the world's wealthiest nations, the G8 countries, who are at the core of the MEF, need to take the lead both at MEF and when they meet in L'Aquila, Italy for the G8 Summit next month.

«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.

Cai says that, during that time, while the northern hemisphere has been well sampled by cargo ships and projects led by wealthy countries north of the equator, very few direct measurements have been taken in the south.

And it would make electricity grids unstable, leading to more frequent and widespread, costly and often fatal, brownouts and blackouts — events mercifully rare in wealthy countries but all too familiar to billions of people living in countries without comprehensive, stable electric grids supplied by stable fossil or nuclear fuels.

The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.

A number of wealthier countries, led by Germany, have promised US$ 10 billion to the Africa Renewable Energy Initiative — an ambitious scheme to provide much - needed clean energy across the continent.

The Convention obligates the wealthy nations culpable for climate change to not only lead mitigation efforts, but also to finance other countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as well as build their capacity and transfer technology.

After all, despite the sorry state of the climate negotiations — and indeed the whole international system of governance — the wealthy countries unambiguous committed, back in 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated, to lead the way out of the climate mess.

Other wealthy nations, so - called developed countries, struggling with their own economic worries, immigration crises, or controversial energy dilemmas, have apparently followed the U.S. lead and fallen in line.

«even if all the commitments in the current NDCs [national pledges of action] are met — an uncertain prospect, given the lack of financial and technological resources from wealthier countries — they would lead to a warming of about 3 °C.»

China said Tuesday that wealthier countries must take the lead in curbing greenhouse gas emissions and refused to say whether it would agree to any mandatory emissions limits that might hamper its booming economy.