Sentences with phrase «nations of the world cut»

And even as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.
... [E] ven as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.
And even as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.

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The officials recommended that the nation closely watch factors such as the outlook for supply of U.S. government debt, along with political developments including trade disputes between the world's two biggest economies when deciding whether to cut some Treasury holdings, the people said.
The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.
The people in Palestine still occupied their own territory and continued to live by their own traditions; but for that very reason they were not obliged to cut themselves off so completely from the rest of the world as were the Jewish people later, when it became necessary for their self - preservation, exiled as they were from their land and scattered among the nations of the world.
A similarly precocious talent, German midfielder Sebastian Deisler seemingly had the world at his feet and the hopes of the nation in his hands, only for injuries and depression to cut short a once - promising career.
Trump himself toured the state, headlining fund - raisers where he laid out a message that now sounds familiar: People were fleeing the state in droves; New York had become a laughingstock for the rest of the nation; Cuomo was lowering tolls merely because Trump was pressuring him; elect Trump governor and «I would make New York State one of the great energy capitals of the world and I would cut everybody's taxes in half.»
Senior author A. David Paltiel, MBA, PhD, professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, says, «Our aim is to confront donor nations with the clinical and economic consequences of any decision to substantially cut HIV program funding and to help recipient nations respond in the least harmful ways possible to the actions of countries in the developed world
By adopting lighting technologies that use less energy the nations of the world will cut down on the fossil fuels, often coal, burned to produce that light.
Under the landmark climate deal struck in Paris in 2015, most of the world's nations agreed to cut carbon emissions to limit warming by 2100 to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.
«Significant» reductions needed The U.N. Environment Programme's «Emissions Gap 2012» report cautions that even if nations meet their strictest pledges, the world will not be able to cut its output of greenhouse gases in time to prevent runaway global warming (ClimateWire, Nov. 21).
Many in the developing world see the whole idea of geoengineering as a ruse by industrialised nations to excuse them from making serious cuts in emissions of the gases causing climate change.
Experts note the rest of the world has not planned enough emissions cuts yet either to reach the 2 - degree C goal; part of the Paris agreement is that nations will ratchet up their pledges over time.
Next year, at the United Nations climate change conference in Paris, representatives of all the world's countries will be hoping to reach a new deal to cut greenhouse gases and prevent the planet overheating dangerously.
According to a new assessment from the United Nations University, sodium and magnesium salts can cut crop yields by between 15 and 70 per cent, and affect more than a fifth of the world's irrigated soils.
THE Paris climate agreement, sealed last December, was a first in many respects: the first truly international climate change deal, with promises from both rich and poor nations to cut emissions; the first global signal that the age of fossil fuels must end; the first time world leaders said we should aim for less than 2 °C of warming.
After 195 nations agreed to commit nearly all of the world's countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions, heads of state praised the accord and the people who made it happen.
In an effort to prop up the scheme, a handful of European countries have already pledged at least $ 135 million to pay above - market rates to projects in the world's poorest nations while offering technical support to help emerging economies such as Brazil and China cut their emissions.
The 146 plans include all developed nations and three quarters of developing countries under the UNFCCC, covering 86 % of global greenhouse gas emissions — almost four times the level of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, the world's first international emission reduction treaty that required emissions cuts from industrialized countries.
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Trailing Lula was a chorus of jeers from world environmentalists and civic groups, such as Conservation International, the Brazilian labor organization CUT, and even the United Nations Environment Program.
Just three years after the world's nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, a push was initiated to move from that agreement's aspirational goals for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases to hard targets and timetables for wealthier countries.
The momentum created by such commitments spurred dozens of nations, joined by the World Bank and other influential institutions, to pledge to cut subsidies for fossil fuels.
McNutt (who was just nominated * to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences) points to studies showing that nations» emissions - cutting pledges made ahead of Paris climate treaty talks this December are insufficient to keep the planet from heating up beyond the 2 - degree Celsius threshold the world's nations previously agreed to avoid.
Leaders from the «Group of 8» leading industrialized nations — United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and Russia — agreed in L'Aquila last week that developed nations should aim to reduce emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 — a formula that essentially requires the developing world to make a 20 percent cut.
On Sunday, the new president of the island nation, Mohamed Nasheed, prodded the world to get serious about cutting emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases by pledging, in a short piece in England's Observer newspaper, to make the Maldives the first carbon - neutral country within a decade:
It'd be nice to think that the world's nations would move more assertively to cut dependence on fossil fuels in light of new research showing that the retreat of Arctic sea ice from warming will modulate if warming is slowed.
And, as the years go by and the world's nations put off cutting emissions, the odds of staying below 2 °C look vanishingly unlikely.
Based on the latest science, most of the world's nations agreed in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 that industrial nations should cut emissions of greenhouse gases, and the treaty was modified last year to require further reductions in emissions to levels well below those of 1990, over the next 10 to 15 years.
Especially dangerous such measures, if adopted, are for the medium and low levels of economic development, effectively cut off their path to reduce the economic gap with more developed nations of the world.
This course, created by a team of energy experts, was unveiled on Tuesday in a report for the United Nations that explores the technological paths available for the world's 15 main economies to both maintain reasonable rates of growth and cut their carbon emissions enough by 2050 to prevent climatic havoc.
The countries — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives and Afghanistan — jointly asked rich nations to fulfill their promises of emission cuts during the pre-2020 phase (second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol) as this action alone would convince the rest of the world about their intention and commitment post-2020 based on next year's global climate deal.
A more realistic perspective of the world, Victor says, is a «bottom up» approach to effort sharing, whereby nations decide for themselves what they can reasonably achieve in terms of carbon cuts by a certain date.
Many of the world's nations are banking on a scheme called REDD which puts a price on trees so they're more valuable standing than cut down.
CNN: The Group of Least Developed Countries, a key partner in the long - running United Nations climate talks, has told the Climate News Network it is willing to agree a core demand of the industrialised world on cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.
Time is fairly short, but if the nations of the world took a united stand to cut greenhouse emissions this would certainly be a major step in the right direction.
The rapid emergence of China, India, and other developing economies as formidable economic competitors to OECD economies has also rendered two further pillars of the old framework untenable: first, the notion that rich countries would agree to very deeply cut their own emissions to create more atmospheric space for poor nations emissions to grow or, alternatively, that they would heavily subsidize the deployment of cleaner but more expensive energy technologies in the developing world.
As the world meets in Cancun, Mexico for the latest round of United Nations talks on climate change, the influential academics called for much tougher measures to cut carbon emissions.
And in 2010, at Cancun, nations agreed on the 2 - degree warming goal, couched in arcane language: that the world recognizes that emissions cuts are needed, «with a view» of limiting temperature rise to 2 C.
The nations of the world have issued their demands for this month's Paris climate conference, and the Government of Bolivia has cut to the chase:
Leaders of the G8 industrial nations meeting in Italy this week are likely to agree that the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050.
Also, not only do I refuse to accept an either / or mentality (we could try politically to get all the nations in the world to work together to cut emissions, and we could try to preserve some portion of humanity in space, at the same time), I also feel that the research done could be complementary and applicable in many different scenarios.
An has said that she hopes the new blockchain project would further boost the nation's economy, as well as contribute immensely to the development of the smart economy, by marrying the most cutting - edge fintech solutions in the world with the practical conditions of Cambodia.
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