Sentences with phrase «mostly by developing countries»

A follow - on 2013 study from another team valued the economic cost of that release at $ 60 trillion, which would be incurred mostly by developing countries in the form of increased droughts, floods and famine.

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Instead, I focus on the millions of dollars in no - interest loans made by thousands of Christians to American and developing countries» entrepreneurs through kiva.org, decisions made mostly $ 25 and one enterprising person at a time.

This moral disengagement, broken only by the missionaries — mostly of low - church varieties and not intent upon political change — lasted until after World War II, when the decolonization movement emerged as that war's perhaps most important consequence, though it had not been foreseen and had still less been an aim in the developed countries.

Water pollution causes approximately 14,000 deaths per day, mostly due to contamination of drinking water by untreated sewage in developing countries.

In 2007, the United Nations predicted an explosion in urban populations, which it said could be as much as the three - quarters of the world population by 2050, mostly residing in developing countries.

For example, a 2010 study discovered three varieties of GMO corn developed by Monsanto that were approved by food safety organizations in America, Europe and other countries was connected with organ damage (mostly kidney and liver functioning) in lab rats.

The future of the world population size will mostly be determined by the developing countries, and not by the countries for which we document a reversal in fertility trends.

And, true to label, a Green Climate Fund supported by Australia and 42 mostly developed countries will redistribute $ US100 billion ($ 128bn) annually to poorer nations as reparation for the unspecified environmental harm the West has allegedly caused them.

The Adaptation Fund has very little resources; The Green Climate Fund is Empty (GCF); technology transfer is not successful because of the Intellectual Property Rights are being held tightly by Europe and the US; the 30 billion dollars for fast start finance is not all new and additional, most of it is repackaged Official Development Aid (ODA) and is mostly loans rather than grants; there is no clear plan to address the incredibly low target of 100 billion dollars annually that is needed by 2020 for long term finance, developed countries do not even want to engage in a conversation to address climate finance.

[2] The new data raises doubt on how serious EU Member States are in their attempts to avoid catastrophic climate change, the impacts of which are increasingly felt across the globe already today, mostly by poor people in developing countries who had no role in creating the problem.

By the time adequate sources were to be developed and perfected untold damage would occur in the poorer countries affecting the lives of billions of people, mostly children.

Global housing needs will be driven by a huge population shift over the next 30 years as 3 billion people, mostly in developing countries, migrate from rural to urban areas in search of opportunity.