Sentences with phrase «major developing countries such»

Yet, the Copenhagen Accord marks the first time where major developing countries such as China and India promise to commit to mitigation actions.

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So, we see a major financial and economic crisis beginning with deflation in a certain number of countries such as Japan, which had major effects on countries such as South Korea and Brazil, and also on developed countries where all the countries of the North and South are starting to move into recession.

The developing countries have generally objected to such measures since they would reduce their comparative advantage through cheap labor and constitute a major barrier to their industrialization.

However, in developing countries such as African nations, a very limited share of waste is recovered and reused, and only major or capital cities have waste management systems.

It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations.

20 % Mutual Funds or ETFs that track a major foreign index, such as the MSCI EAFE Index, which tracks developed foreign countries

Belize's opposition to off shore oil exploration was a landmark event, marking the first time that a developing country has taken such a major step to protect its oceans from potential oil extraction.

The legislation marks the first time that a developing country has taken such a major step to protect its oceans — and all the life within — from oil exploration and extraction.

A strong, industrial economy is the reason that hundreds of thousands are not killed when a major natural disaster strikes a developed country such as the US.

On the one hand, the major obstacle remains the funding challenge of implementing REDD + on a sufficiently global scale to reduce worldwide tropical deforestation and its greenhouse gas contributions, yet any financial mechanism that is capable of generating such large - scale sums and transferring them to developing countries are considered «unacceptable» by REDD + critics.

The platform also contains the following vague and ambiguous promise: «A Conservative government will... address the issue of greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), with a made - in - Canada plan, emphasising new technologies, developed in concert with the provinces and in coordination with other major industrial countries.»

One major obstacle besetting global negotiations was the problem of disparity between developing and developed economies: advanced countries would take a bigger hit from a policy, while increasingly wealthy, but still (rapidly) «developing» economies such as China and India would soon be given a substantial competitive advantage.

For example, if you're volunteering in central Africa, this coverage could make the difference between being transported to a hospital in a major population center of your volunteer - site country, being transported to a hospital in a more developed nearby country such as South Africa, or being transported back to a hospital in your home country.