Sentences with phrase «only wealthy nations»

The last climate treaty, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, required only wealthy nations to cut emissions.

As the West has shown, only wealthy nations have ever voluntarily reduced birth rates below replacement level.

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He said the $ 10 billion Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help poor nations address warming «should only be the beginning» of the wealthy world's commitment.

Norway, a wealthy nation with per capita GDP almost twice that of the U.S., can only get 9 out of 100 eighth graders to NAEP proficient.

The standards would not only catapult American students ahead of other developed nations but would also help close the gaps between low - income students in the U.S. and their wealthier counterparts.

The standards would not only catapult American students ahead of other developed nations, but would also help close the gaping achievement gaps between low - income students in the U.S. and their wealthier counterparts.

While approximately three - fourths of four year olds in America are involved in some kind of educational program, the United States still ranks only 25th out of the 34 most wealthy and upcoming nations in the world in terms of early childhood education, lagging behind the likes of Portugal and Mexico.

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.

Yet according to those who aren't so enamored with these symbols of distributed energy — ahem, certain backwards - looking utilities — solar panels are only found on top of the absurdly large mansions of the nation's wealthy.

The Convention obligates the wealthy nations culpable for climate change to not only lead mitigation efforts, but also to finance other countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as well as build their capacity and transfer technology.

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

Is it any wonder why the US and Canada are the only two wealthy nations that don't mandate labeling?

The divide between what the world's wealthy nations are willing to commit to in regards to combatting climate change and what the poorer nations (read: those who will be worst affected) say must be done seems to only be growing.