Sentences with phrase «majority of developing countries»

As of 2016, in the majority of developing countries, more than 80 % of very young adolescents are in school.

As for the requirement of industrialised nations to provide financial support to developing countries, even if the amendment was to pass, there is little chance that the majority of developing countries would not walk away from the Agreement.

As most of the growth in demand for liquid biofuel is expected in developed countries, the scope for trade is the main factor affecting development plans in the majority of developing countries.

It strengthens the Adaptation Fund, with a 3 - year interim mandate for the World Bank to manage it; establishes the Copenhagen Accord's promised Green Fund, involving a transitional committee with a majority of developing countries as members; creates a registry to record nationally appropriate mitigation actions by developing countries seeking supportive finance and technology, and sets up a network - based technology centre.

And this is not easy for the majority of the developing countries, I recognize that, which is why climate finance, tech - transfer, and capacity building are so crucial because if we don't meet this goal, we will be living in a world much warmer than the 2ºC target.

Not exact matches

The global economic crisis raised the value of gold fourfold, while the overwhelming majority of central bank reserves in developed countries are invested in gold.

Rather, the majority believed less developed countries (LDCs) were poor primarily because of misguided and corrupt political and economic structures inside the LDCs.

The majority of people in the developed world don't have a day - to - day battle on their hands to survive but the instinct never goes away and it's in proportion with the situation; self, family, friends, community, country and the level of threat.

Therefore we convert rice field for rubber cultivation and other cash - crops, including horticultural plantations, develop capital intensive production units (in countries like India where the major strength is its labour power), thereby denying majority of people their right to work.

In developing countries there has always been a substantial gap (now widening) between what medical science can do and what the vast majority of people can afford to have done for them.

The majority of women earn on average about three - fourths of the pay that men receive for doing the same work, outside of the agricultural sector, in both developed and developing countries.

While many diseases kill people prematurely, the majority of people in developed countries die after the age of sixty - five, with more and more reaching the eighties, nineties, and beyond.

In developed countries, where the majority of food wastage happens at the consumer level, the consumer is exposed to a wealth of information from various sources which can result in unpredictable consumer behaviour driven by opinions and influences from various sources of information.

It must also be underlined that the vast majority of women in developing countries breastfeed, and at the same time give their baby additional traditional foods, or just plain water.

American citizens, including American citizens who have emigrated from countries they wish to adopt from, represent the majority of international adoptive parents, followed by Europeans and those from other developed nations such as Australia.

Espada's office announced this morning that the majority leader and Sampson will co-host the even to address a «developing crisis» evident in «an alarming rash of bias attacks against immigrants, particularly Hispanics, in the Bronx, Staten Island and Long Island, and a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment across the country and state.

The Vice President re-echoed the credentials and desire of President Nana Akuffo Addo to develop Zongo communities in the country where the majority of Muslims live, but lacks development, and therefore pledged to establish the Zongo Development Fund as captured in the party's manifesto.

But it is a technology that has proven problematic in developed and developing countries — witness the ecological problems brought on by the Three Gorges — and most of the undeveloped locations for hydropower are located in the west of the country while the majority of electricity use is in the east.

The researchers noted «a clear disparity» between today's most widely used pesticides and the current knowledge of their risks, «with the majority of the published literature focused on pesticides that are no longer registered for use in developed countries.»

«This work has a huge humanitarian bent in that the majority of countries affected by arsenic poisoning are developing countries,» Cottone said.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of park in developing countries lack inventory records and detection data.

Of the 20 cities with the highest estimated loss in 2050, a majority are in developing countries, including Egypt, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Libya and Indonesia.

Unfortunately, the majority of MDR tuberculosis cases occur in developing countries that can't afford the several billion dollars that the global Stop TB Partnership estimates3 will be required to combat the disease.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, a public - private partnership that bankrolls the majority of vaccines in developing countries, might play a big role as well.

«The majority of people in developed countries own smartphones, including younger people who are increasingly affected by depression,» said Mr Firth.

Professor Mutimer added: «With HCV spread among PWID now accounting for the vast majority of incident cases in developed countries, and with modelling studies suggesting that treatment for PWID could reduce transmission, it is critical that physicians review and adopt these guidelines when managing this important group of patients.»

The majority of research investment comes from high - income countries, whereas the highest burden of infectious disease is in the developing world.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that over sixteen million deaths occur worldwide each year due to cardiovascular disease, and more than half of those deaths occur in developing countries where plant - based diets high in legumes and starches are eaten by the vast majority of the people.

The majority of people in developed countries have problems with their blood sugar, and many do not realize until health problems arise.

Compensation - Based International marriage agency: An agency that introduces men from developed countries to a potential mail - order bride, but the majority of the women are actually paid to be on the site and paid to interact with men.

The overwhelming majority of workers in this country, if they studied ICT, would have worked on clunky desktop computers at school to develop their skills.

But it's developing countries with poor infrastructure, non-existent driver training, ageing cars and less advanced emergency health care that account for the majority of these deaths.

However, a majority of the country's population seems to have developed love for this segment.

Not surprisingly, developing countries — like South Africa, where Random House Struik launched an e-book-only imprint this summer — are well behind Europe, as e-readers remain unaffordable for the majority of the population.

But the majority of mixed - breed dogs in developed countries are of well - known breed ancestry.

At the end of CowParade, the majority of the Edinburgh herd will go to market — a Gala Auction, with 75 per cent of the net proceeds from the auction going to the following charities: OneCity Trust, tackling social exclusion through a range of community projects, and VETAID, working to alleviate poverty through sustainable farming in developing countries.

Self - declared as Zimbabwe's first emerging artist - run gallery and operating in a country where the majority of the population is under 30, Harare's First Floor Gallery forms part of a young, developing cultural landscape.

While a fraction of the coal - power stations that would be saved by switching to biomass will be sited on suitable geology for CO2 sequestration, the great majority are not, meaning that in every quite - developed country HP pipelines would be needed that would sum to many thousands of miles.

While the United States and Europe are responsible for the vast majority of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere through the industrial era, the International Energy Agency foresees more than 90 percent of the growth in such emissions coming from developing countries, led by China.

Strange how every developed country except the US, the vast majority of qualified scientists, and most credible public figures in the US — including Senator John McCain — accept that the balance of risk favors somewhat dramatic action.

For household ‐ efficiency measures, the majority of studies show rebounds in developed countries in the region of 20 - 45 % (the sum of direct and indirect rebound effects), meaning that efficiency measures achieve 65 - 80 % of their original purposes.»

The majority of these land - use change emissions come from deforestation in developing countries, where forests are being cleared for agriculture and timber.

Global warming is already having severe impacts on developing countries, like Bangladesh, Vietnam and China, which are producing the majority of apparel for the United States.

What is particularly strange is that the developing countries — representing the majority of member states of the United Nations did not support Bolivia in its opposition to the agreement.

The vast majority of the growth in demand for water will occur in countries with developing or emerging economies.

The vast majority of the COP members are developing countries looking to cash in on various funding schemes that take huge amounts from the developed countries, including the US.

For the first time, the majority of this investment was in developing countries, with China responsible for 36 percent of the total.

I originally considered «developed countries» but reckoned that the majority of this would still apply to the west (i.e. the Chinese will do as they will for reasons of their own) where climate change is a topic that is actually discussed / taken seriously / etc..

Further, the legacy emissions — that is the vast majority of the current carbon dioxide inventory in the atmosphere — belong to the developed countries.