Sentences with phrase «more wealthy nations»

I guess it serves a purpose if developing countries can convince more wealthy nations to transfer billions of dollars for hazard mitigation whatever the cause.

Many of the world's poorer countries and those who'll feel the effects most keenly of climate change have been calling on the more wealthy nations

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President Donald Trump praised Saudi Arabia's defense acquisitions before as he met with the nation's wealthy young crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, at the White House — and pushed for even more.

«One of our biggest requests is for the international community - wealthier nations - to provide more support to help organisations such as Tearfund who are on the ground to help more people.»

And more recently, Catholic schools and Lutheran schools have demonstrated a staunch commitment to urban education — at a time when many wealthier families fled from our nation's cities.

Schizophrenia has a more benign course and outcome in the developing world [than in the wealthy, industrialized nations].

Its about time we stop trying to reward the wealthy for already being wealthy by giving them more money and stop trying to punish the poor for simply being poor in a nation where the minimum wage isn't a living wage, health insurance is unaffordable for far too many, and education is obscenely expensive.

Those who died in the United States represent a cross section of the human community: 4,000 people from more than 80 nations, people of nearly every ethnicity and religious belief, wealthy individuals and people with very little, including low - wage immigrant workers.

As a nation, we are far more interested in wealthy adults than impoverished children.

And she is much more likely to either have knowledgeable breastfeeding support in her social circles or, if the breastfeeding specialist - to - mother ratio is similar to that of a wealthy nation, those breastfeeding supports are not having to compete with rampant cultural influence from formula companies and other cultural breastfeeding hurdles, such as unpaid maternity leave.

It reminded me of the plight of so - called developing nations in our relationships with the wealthier, larger, more established nations of the world.

People having surgery in low income countries are more likely to develop an infection than those in wealthier nations, which may be linked to drug - resistant bacteria, research suggests.

By investing in efficient plant it could generate lots of valuable carbon credits to sell to wealthier, more wasteful nations.

In contrast, people in the wealthier and more highly educated nations were quite familiar with global warming.

The United States pays three times as much per citizen as the average of other wealthy nations — far more than even the second - highest spender, Switzerland, adding up to $ 3 trillion a year.

Could you see trade growing or more nations becoming wealthy with us eating more diverse plants?

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House Democrats looking to spare millions of middle - class families from the expensive bite of the alternative minimum tax are considering adding a surcharge of 4 percent or more to the tax bills of the nation's wealthiest households.

Second, the impacts of climate change, which the wealthy nations are largely responsible for, are beginning to come down hard, and this will only make the crisis more acute.

More than 300,000 refugees fled severe drought, conflict and famine in southern Somalia in 2011 into Ethiopia and Kenya (William Davies / AFP / Getty Images) That's why, in recent years, many of the world's wealthier nations — including the United States, Germany, Britain, and Japan — have promised billions of dollars in aid to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of global warming and switch over to cleaner energy sources.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

And just 34 % of Japanese believe rich countries should do more about climate change, while 58 % say developing countries should do just as much as wealthy nations.

While publics in both rich and poor nations are generally supportive of their own governments taking action to curb greenhouse gas emissions, in principle many people believe that wealthy societies, not poor economies, should take on more of the responsibility for addressing climate change.

In essence, wealthy countries were producing fewer goods themselves and importing more from rapidly - developing nations, such as China and India.

Developing countries of the Global South have promised to do even more if they are financed by wealthy nations.

Little surprise then that, late last year, the United Nations quietly announced that, since 2000, the emissions of the 41 wealthy, industrialized members of Kyoto had gone up, not down, by more than 4 percent.

Other developing countries are eager for wealthy, industrialized nations to do more, sooner, to curb emissions; the Pre-2020 Ambitions draft lends some pressure to do so.

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An important «adaptation» to disasters has simply been to become more wealthy as a nation.

Projections by experts at the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggest that the growth in energy use to 2030 will happen in the emerging economies, like China and India, while the wealthier nations» use is more or less flat.

Some have said that Bitcoin makes much more sense in the developing world, while others claim developed nations like the United States have the sort of tech savvy and wealthy population necessary to give this new technology a boost.

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In essence, the study says, we're wealthier as a nation, but there's more wealth at the top of the economic pyramid and less wealth for everyone else.