Sentences with phrase «make vulnerable nations»

On the climate change adaptation side, the Bank is stepping up efforts to integrate disaster risk management work with longer - term efforts to make vulnerable nations more resilient to climate and disaster risks.

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And last but not least, the world's 43 most vulnerable countries adopted a push for 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 — leading with a commitment that many rich and developed nations have yet to make.

The four - term Missouri Democrat continued his Twitter diatribe against the deal to raise the amount of money the nation can borrow and make a down payment on the federal deficit saying, «This debt deal is antithetical to everything the great religions of the world teach, which is take care of the poor, aged, vulnerable.»

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

And the recent decision in Canada to deregulate many aspects of the marketplace and increase U.S. trade has made that nation much more vulnerable to American economic exploitation.

China does not have river treaties with other nations, making downstream countries vulnerable to water supply disruptions and other environmental damages.

But the Brexit vote has made Gibraltar, a nation proud of its British heritage, much more vulnerable.

«We know and we feel the plight of those that are most vulnerable, and we are here today to let everyone know that our solidarity, our strength, lies in our diversity, and our mission is to make sure that everyone receives justice and that this is truly an indivisible nation,» said Afaf Nasher, the executive director of CAIR New York.

But it's also a sign of how much of the developing world is willfully making itself more vulnerable to climate change, even as poor nations ask rich ones to spend hundreds of billions per year on helping them to adapt.

What it means: Island states, African nations and other vulnerable countries are pushing for a system that provides funding to help them recover from disasters made worse by climate change, such as rising seas or powerful storms.

«Learning through doing and making a contribution to the learning and teaching of our nation's most vulnerable students is a hallmark of the work done in the Workplace Lab and I couldn't be prouder of our students.»

According to the nonprofit news outlet, there's «a sprawling system of «alternative» schools made up of roughly a half million of the nation's most vulnerable students.»

Geography, meteorology, poverty, shoddy construction, a booming population, and, to a much lesser degree, climate change combine to make the Philippines the nation most vulnerable to killer typhoons, according to several scientific studies.

According to a former president, the United States pulling out of the Paris climate agreement will make the rest of the world vulnerable to the effects of climate change and will make U.S. a «rogue» nation.

A central issue of concern in these negotiations is the need of nations to take equity and justice seriously when they make ghg emissions reductions commitments and when considering their responsibility for adaptation, losses and damages in poor vulnerable countries.

Because a high percentage of the arguments made by most proponents of climate change policy have been focused on adverse climate impacts that citizens will experience where they live, while ignoring the harms to hundreds of millions of vulnerable poor people around the world that are being affected by GHG emissions from all - high emitting nations, along with claims that mainstream climate science is credible and has been undermined by morally reprehensible tactics, there is a need to make more people aware of:

No national reports deny responsibility for contributions to adaptation and loses and damages, but no nations have made an express link between their ethical responsibility for supporting adaption and compensation for losses and danages in vulnerable countries and what they have committed to.

This proximity to coastal areas for the majority of the population — combined with unsustainable development trends, environmental deterioration, and high levels of poverty — make the island nation that much more vulnerable to typhoons.

To the extent that we fail to acknowledge that despite the egalitarian claims of Western nation states, and admissions that race is socially constructed, race not only matters but has the power to injure, we make people invisible and even more vulnerable.»

Carriers with «national» policies spread those costs throughout the nation, making rate changes less noticeable, but homeowners are vulnerable to frequent or annual changes in premium rates by many carriers.