Sentences with phrase «more vulnerable countries»

After running two days over its anticipated schedule, the 20th UN Conference of the Parties on climate change (COP 20) concluded yesterday with an agreement that reiterates some of last year's commitments towards more vulnerable countries, such as the «loss - and - damage mechanism» — but many believe a far bolder approach to climate change response is urgently [continue reading...]

COP10 was to focus on «adaptation,» and by so doing feature the interests of the poorer and more vulnerable countries over the rich world's obsession with low - cost mitigation.

However, countries also agreed on a more aspirational goal at Paris to try to limit warming to 1.5 degrees, which was seen as a safer level for low - lying island states and other more vulnerable countries.

Not exact matches

And more is needed to protect overseas bases, which are vulnerable because other countries» civilian electricity grids are as vulnerable as those in the U.S.

And as organizations such as the IMF and the OECD have constantly warned, high household debt renders the country far more vulnerable to economic shocks.

Yet, as a country, we are probably more vulnerable than we were a decade ago because we failed to take seriously the most important lesson of the crisis: the dangers of housing mania and the perils of household debt.

But the ban may actually backfire, said Human Rights Watch, which warned it could «increase abuses of workers who are forced to resort to unsafe and unregulated channels to enter the country» and thus become more vulnerable to trafficking and other dangers.

There's only one silver lining to this deadlock: As more and more people hear about the trafficking bill, more will learn what trafficking is, how it hurts the most vulnerable among us, and how it is more likely to involve U.S. - born victims than those brought here from other countries.

The country also has a high level of debt servicing ratio, which made its banking system more vulnerable.

Some countries are more vulnerable than others.

While the U.S. and Europe are currently grappling with huge debts, a lot of the developing countries had their financial crises more than a decade ago and are now less vulnerable to shocks.

Analysts believe that investors are gradually beginning to pay more attention to these assets since they are unrelated to a country's economy — unlike fiat currencies and other traditional forms of money exchange, which are extremely vulnerable to internal and external economic shocks — leading to the popularity of cryptos such as bitcoin and a few others.

Today's blog comes from Stephan Bauman, who serves as the President of World Relief, which includes approximately 2,500 staff in 20 different countries focused on a mission of empowering local churches to serve the vulnerable, including more than 25 offices in the U.S. that resettle refugees.

Described as the Mother Teresa of Pakistan, Dr Ruth Pfau, 87, moved to Pakistan and spent more than fifty years of her life helping some of the country's most vulnerable people.

«Just three weeks ago at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, they called for richer countries do more to cut their own carbon emissions and increase their support to the most vulnerable and worst affected communities and countries who are least able to protect themselves from climate change.»

The contribution of these varieties to the country's food security is even more crucial because the Philippines is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, according to Dr. Calixto Protacio, executive director of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).

One criticism of the WHO stance has been that it is more relevant to developing countries, where babies who are breastfed for longer are less likely to be exposed to contaminated water while they are at their most vulnerable.

Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).

The most vulnerable and fragile countries will receive more - so aid to Afghanistan is up by 40 per cent.

«People across the country are fed up with Republicans putting politics ahead of the public good and McConnell's unprecedented obstructionism has made his entire caucus that much more vulnerable this November,» Shripal Shah, a spokesman for Senate Majority PAC, said in a statement to Roll Call.

The President said the political challenges faced in some African countries, like South Sudan, usually spiralled into neighbouring countries, leaving the entire continent more vulnerable and forcing governments to channel meagre resources into fighting internal crisis.

This country stands for something better than hurting vulnerable people at the same time that we lavish more tax cuts on those who least need them and already are benefiting handsomely from the tax cuts enacted to date.»

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.

Internationally, Marie Stopes International delivers quality family planning and reproductive healthcare to millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women in more than 40 countries.

Corruption, affects all countries and societies but more seriously poor countries poor citizens and the vulnerable in society.

While recognising that all countries are affected by the effects of climate change under «One Planet» but some are more vulnerable, the summit seeks for tangible collective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

«Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking,» the spokesman said.

More so, Onwukeme confirms that Jammeh is not only weak in military strength but even more vulnerable financially because Gambia is one of the poorest countries in the world without any significant natural resources and its institutions are micro managed through technical assistance from multilateral and bilateral donors (World BAMore so, Onwukeme confirms that Jammeh is not only weak in military strength but even more vulnerable financially because Gambia is one of the poorest countries in the world without any significant natural resources and its institutions are micro managed through technical assistance from multilateral and bilateral donors (World BAmore vulnerable financially because Gambia is one of the poorest countries in the world without any significant natural resources and its institutions are micro managed through technical assistance from multilateral and bilateral donors (World BANK).

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has appealed to the police to provide more security for vulnerable places across the country including Markets, Religious Centers, Parks, Gardens and Media Houses in order to prevent attacks on such places by Boko Haram -LSB-...]

Mozambique is among the African countries most vulnerable to climate change, with over 1,550 miles of coastline, more than half of its population living along the ocean, and cities that function as the nation's economic hubs.

These countries are more vulnerable to the effects of El Niño than the US, partly because they have less money.

Trainees who come to study in a foreign country are more vulnerable than people who come to take a high - level job or to reunite with families because they often are less experienced, have fewer economic means, and lack local social support.

To safeguard against that outcome, the report authors recommend that countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions, provide more eco-friendly methods to farmers and workers, and come up with plans to make sure those most vulnerable to climate change — especially the poor — will retain rights and security.

One criticism of the WHO's 6 - month stance has been that it is more relevant to developing countries, where babies who are breastfed for longer are less likely to be exposed to contaminated water while they are at their most vulnerable.

The supply of climate change knowledge is biased towards richer countries — those that pollute the most and are least vulnerable to climate change — and skewed away from the poorer, fragile and more vulnerable regions of the world.

The analysis clearly shows that the research is biased towards countries that are wealthier, better educated, more stable and less corrupt, emit the most carbon, and are less vulnerable to climate change.

Yet, like a multiheaded hydra, the industry seems to be surviving legal onslaughts in countries like India and branching into newer, more vulnerable places such as Iraq and sub-Saharan Africa.

More broadly, efforts should be focused on strengthening government institutions in vulnerable countries and helping them invest in «green growth» policies aimed at increasing economic growth while fostering resilience to climate shocks, he said.

Countries that depend upon food imports and whose people spend one - third or more of their income on food are most vulnerable to increased global food prices, according to an analysis by Japanese investment firm Nomura.

Significantly, poor people in climate - vulnerable countries will suffer more because they will not have the economic resources to cope with climate damages.

The contribution of these varieties to the country's food security is even more crucial because the Philippines is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, according to Dr. Calixto Protacio, executive director of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).

«Burberry's donation will support our ongoing work to provide safe homes and support to young people, grow our youth engagement programme and fund our plans to bring AKT to more cities, to reach the most vulnerable people across the country.»

International dating used to be considered a risk factor for women, as moving countries they are losing support of their family and friends and becoming more vulnerable.

To save innocent and vulnerable people by any means is not called a «war» between two or more countries its called a genuine and good cause to be there.Americans did not loose a war, they did not surrender, they showed and left an example for other countries to reach for those in need, any day, any time any where in any circumstances, despite having any faith.

To save innocent and vulnerable people by any means is not called a «war» between two or more countries its called a genuine and good cause to be there.Americans did not loose a war, they did not surrender, they showed and left an example for other countries to reach for those in need, any day, anytime any where in any circumstances, despite having any faith.That's a cause.Areason to live.

But in thrusting Raleigh to the foreground, screenwriters Hirst and William Nicholson (Gladiator) fail to dramatize how Walsingham's strategy actually made his queen and country more vulnerable.

The Department for Education (DfE) is launching the new service, which is designed to give more vulnerable children the chance to attend some of the country's highest quality independent and state boarding schools.

While the United States has been fiddling with the implementation of poorly designed accountability systems constructed in anger at our teachers, a large and swiftly growing number of other countries have succeeded in redesigning their education systems to greatly improve student achievement, provide much more equity for vulnerable students and do all this at much lower cost.

We're active in more than 150 countries, serving vulnerable children through a wide range of media, formal education, and philanthropically - funded social impact programs, each grounded in rigorous research and tailored to the needs and cultures of the communities we serve.