Sentences with phrase «of wealthy nations»

The two - degree target is the choice of wealthy nations, for the most part, because the increased heat and sea levels won't affect them as much.

With a master's degree in sociology, political science, statistics and economics, Solberg leads one of the wealthiest nations in the world, with a per capita GDP of $ 70,812, and one of its happiest, too.

We find it unacceptable that at a time when the Akufo Addo government continues to lament significant shortfalls in revenue and in the face of astronomical duty payments by Ghanaian importers, personnel of the Armed Forces of the wealthiest nation on earth would be exempted from tax and levy payments and in such generous proportions.

T'Challa and Killmonger embody two sides of a centuries - old foreign - policy argument: isolationism vs. interventionism, the duties and responsibilities of wealthy nations to lesser privileged countries.

Providing audiences with abstract but scary information requiring sacrifice has produced apathy and denial among citizens of wealthy nations, the author says.

But even if they agreed that in already industrialized countries with adequate productive capacity a shift toward regional self - sufficiency would be possible, they would be likely to argue that this withdrawal from the global market on the part of the wealthy nations would be unconscionable.

Media is used to impose the culture and power of the wealthy nations from the global North.

Canada — the current president of the G7 group of wealthy nations — condemned the decision, while the European Commission froze funds earmarked for Bulgaria's reactors.

From an outsider's perspective it would be unfortunate if either or both of these would fail because of lack of political will and appropriate funding that Australia as one of the wealthiest nations surely can afford.

Climate change is a moral crisis because every time governments of wealthy nations fail to act, it sends a message that we in the global north are putting our immediate comfort and economic security ahead of the suffering and survival of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth.

Of course, no declaration of this kind would be complete without an indictment of capitalism and an assertion of the profound guilt of the wealthier nations for causing such a deplorable state of affairs.

Historians living through such times will render a harsh judgment on a leader of the wealthiest nation on the planet who not only ignored the warnings about global warming but actively worked to block every effort to avoid or minimize the risk too.

The last climate treaty, in 1997, only targeted the emissions of wealthier nations and exempted fast - growing countries like China and India.

The shortcomings of some wealthier nations isn't stopping key players in the developing world from making the most of COP16 — particularly when it comes to REDD, which Serra hopes will help fund safeguards to prevent further deforestation in the Amazon.

But there is little chance that what the developing countries would most like to see — new concessional financing for adaptation and mitigation that is and provided from the national budgets of the wealthy nations — will be forthcoming.

The Report highlighted that it is simply not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations of the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 % of its citizens.

Within a few decades, Japan had become one of the wealthiest nations in the world.

Among the major polluters, 58 % of the Russians say that any effort to combat climate change is principally the responsibility of the wealthier nations, as do 56 % of the Chinese.

It is a painful demonstration of the immaturity and lack of connection to reality that citizens of wealthy nations are spending down our finite petroleum «gift» in pursuit of pleasure and indulgence.

«Independence is all about the ability to put Scotland's wealth to better use, and develop a higher standard of living as befits our position as one of the wealthiest nations on Earth.

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.

But, as some evidence, 1 in 3 Americans (citizens of one of the wealthiest nations on Earth) have no retirement savings at all.

Costa Rica is one of the wealthiest nations in the world in terms of biodiversity.

And yet even in one of the wealthiest nations on earth the defences were inadequate and the response plan poor.

: «It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 per cent of its citizens.

As Tom Calma, in his role as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner, pointedly stated in 2008: «It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 per cent of its citizens.

Though the U.S. is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, and Virginia is one of its most prosperous states, both have among the highest rates of premature and low birth - weight births in the developed world.