Sentences with phrase «on developing countries since»

In calculating reforestation costs, the focus is on developing countries since forested area is already expanding in the northern hemisphere's industrial countries.

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As an entrepreneur since 16, and founder of Sughar Empowerment Society in Pakistan, Brohi shed light on the challenges some young treps face in developing countries.

Since Mr. Xi came to power, China's leadership has recentralized power to focus on anti-corruption and abuse of power by officials, as well as developing big plans for market reform and opening the country to foreign investment.

Spending on renewables in developed countries has halved since 2011, with investment levels in Europe falling back below the 2006 level

While the average rate of growth has decreased steadily since the 1970s, Moses says the 18 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) that the United States spends on health care is 50 to 60 percent higher than any other developed country.

Since 15 - 18 % of women in industrial societies and up to 30 % in developing countries suffer from maternal depression, it is of clinical and public health concern to understand the effects of maternal depression on children's development.

Since its inception in 2000, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- an international test of reading, math, and science — has shown that American 15 - year - olds perform more poorly, on average, than 15 - year - olds in many other developed countries.

Since that success Retro have gone on to develop Mario Kart 7 for 3DS and Donkey Kong Country Returns for Wii, a hugely successful reboot.

Currently developing research on the «Halls of Contemporary Art of Santo André / São Paulo» one of the most important art exhibitions in the country, occurring since 1968, in Santo André / SP, Brazil.

However, and since there is no consensus on the Accord and since some of those countries who were in what is called «green room» started to disassociate themselves from parts of the Accord including the parts that protect the interests of developing countries including ours, we feel it is difficult to see how the upcoming negotiations would be if we start from scratch as many are predicting.

Here's some news that should be obvious on some level, but is now backed up with the data to prove it: the cuts in carbon emissions that developed countries have made since 1990 have been cancelled out «many» times over by

The opportunity, Navarro Llanos said, was that since countries like hers had done almost nothing to send emissions soaring, they were in a position to declare themselves «climate creditors,» owed money and technology support from the large emitters to defray the hefty costs of coping with more climate - related disasters, as well as to help them develop on a green energy path.

Greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) should be calculated on a per capita basis from 1900 to ensure fair play as nations strive to halve global emissions by 2050... developed countries, which are home to just 20 percent of the world's population, have contributed 75 percent of all global GHGs emissions since the Industrial Revolution, according to the website of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Since the Kyoto treaty expires in 2012, it is absurd to talk about the worth of the Kyoto Protocol by extending it to 2100, assuming no emission control demands will be put on developing countries at some point in the future.

Many developing countries are wondering if they can get a say in what an eventual deal looks like, since having developed countries set the rules is akin to a demolition firm being asked to restore a historic monument on a plot they're already planning to level into a parking lot.

Some developed countries are now trying to impose these reductions on less developed countries, but encountering stiff opposition since the less developed countries realize that less CO2 emissions will result in less economic progress for their countries, an outcome which they strongly oppose.

«Industrialized countries, whose emissions have risen significantly since 1990, as is the case for Canada, remain in a weaker position to call on developing countries to limit their emissions.»

Such income redistribution would decrease the economic welfare of the developed countries and would have an uncertain effect on the recipient countries since they would presumably be asked to give up part or all of their aspirations for further development since it is strongly dependent on increased use of fossil fuels to increase human productivity.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provides publishes the statistics of ODA every year, and since the focus on FSF has published a «comprehensive» report on climate finance, providing data for ODA flows labeled as mitigation and adaptation climate finance to developing countries.

Chip and his team negotiated and implemented bilateral logging agreements with China and Indonesia, coordinated the Climate and Environment Working Group under the U.S. - Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, led trade - related efforts on forests with Peru, the Asia - Pacific region, and the European Union, and played a leading role in developing the U.S. relationship with Burma on forest policy since that country began its political and economic reform process in 2011.

Najam said developing countries see the 2 degrees goal as a vague notion that does not put pressure on individual countries, since no one nation can control global temperature.

World leaders were given a «D' on developing indicators, since it took countries until 2009 to even develop indicators.

From the standpoint of some developing countries, even the «equity» scenario is inequitable, since it is based on calculated fair shares of the pie going forward.

I've been following this topic since the mid-90's and from what I've read, I think they want to stop the burning of fossil fuels mainly in developed countries as well as put the clamps on democracy, and redistribute our wealth to developing countries for two reasons: 1) to bring down their fertility rates by development and 2) to provide reliable electric power to areas of the world without it so that the NSA can easily keep track of the rest of the world's population.

With the American Clean Energy & Security Act just passed in the House, let's look at what WWF has to say about how well the G8 countries, plus five developing nations are doing in terms of climate change policy: The 2009 G8 Climate Scorecards rank the members of the G8 on a range of issues — emission trends since 1990, growth of renewable energy and renewable energy policy, emissions per capita and per unit of GDP, CO2 per kWh of electricity, industrial energy efficiency, transport policy, among others.

This is very strange since we have no proper public transport infrastructure, and that which does exist is expensive and unsafe... as our major centers develop there still seems to be a trend to make cities more friendly for cars, not people... [T] he effect on individuals seems to be very dramatic in a country like South Africa, where there is a growing divide between those who can afford motorized transport and those who struggle to.

And since there is still no consensus on the issue of technology transfer and financial support from the developed countries India would not like to commit anything before the last leg of negotiations are completed.

Since the EU first launched its consultation on the TTIP in 2014, the EU's plans for the resolution of investor - state disputes in its own future investment agreements with third countries have developed.

Spending on renewables in developed countries has halved since 2011, with investment levels in Europe falling back below the 2006 level

The original Pixel on Oreo, on the other hand, has developed a cottage country of complaints since the update became available.

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