Sentences with phrase «other developed countries agreed»

At that time, the EU also offered to commit to a 30 % reduction in greenhouse emissions if other developed countries agreed to join in.

And other developing countries agreed to freeze use in 2028.

If other developed countries agree to comparable reductions and emerging economies contribute according to their respective capabilities and responsibilities within a framework of a binding agreement, Liechtenstein is prepared to raise its target up to 30 %.

Not exact matches

Four out of five respondents agree that Canada's laws for dealing with companies involved in unethical or corrupt corporate practices should be similar to those in other developed countries, so that Canadian companies are operating on a level playing field with their foreign competitors.

While the authors of the new assessment agreed that people break down some of the bisphenol A they absorb, they said since so many plastics and other products containing it are in use that «virtually everybody» in developed countries has chronic, low - level exposure to the chemical and measurable amounts of its biologically active version.

The realpolitik of the climate negotiations, analysts agree, is that with Congress likely to restrict climate funding for developing countries, the United States will have to put out an aggressive target if it has any hope of pushing China, India and others to also make serious commitments.

Developed in consultation with foreign ministries, defense and education officials, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, among other groups, it stipulates that countries agree to assist victims of attacks on schools; help to keep classes running; investigate violent incidents; promote «conflict - sensitive» education policies to lessen tension among diverse social or ethnic groups; and implement various other measures.

Others suggest that it was the European Union that backed down by agreeing to a statement lacking any specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in sharp contrast to their stated position and their promises to the developing countries and especially to the small island states.

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When leaders from the developed world pushed Prime Minister Narenda Modi's government to refocus his government's energy plans on renewable power on the sidelines of the COP21, the Indian leadership agreed — if those affluent countries helped India and other developing countries cover the costs.

Developing countries are angry the U.S. and European Union and other rich industrialised countries refuse to increase their carbon emission reduction targets or agree to additional [continue reading...]

b Acknowledge the lack of delivery on previous commitments agreed at Rio, including the UNFCCC commitments for all countries to reduce emissions to allow ecosystems to adapt and to ensure that food production is not threatened, and that developed countries would provide sufficient finance and other support to enable developing countries to undertake mitigation and adaptation.

But it was the only way to salvage the disastrous negotiation, and it did set out the few points on which the US and China — along with the other big developing countries — agreed.

Among other things, for instance, the parties to the UNFCCC agreed that: (a) They would adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, (b) Developed countries should take the first steps to do this, and (c) Nations have common but differentiated responsibilities to prevent climate change, (d) Nations may not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking action, and (e) Nations should reduce their GHG emissions based upon «equity.»

He pointed out that the United States and other parties to the international climate change negotiations have agreed to provide financing to help developing countries protect their tropical forests nationwide with safeguards for indigenous peoples and biodiversity.

Where is the evidence that they will agree to anything sufficient in 2020, when their per capita incomes will still be markedly lower than other developed countries?

China and other developing countries are unlikely to agree to binding emissions reductions, and the «national schedules» that some have proposed to take their place are unlikely to appease domestic constituencies in the United States and elsewhere concerned that domestic emissions - reduction commitments will further exacerbate the economic advantages that China and other developing economies have on their competitors in the developed world.

Among other things, negotiators agreed to: A. Emissions Reductions Commitments of Developed and Developing Countries.

In March 2007, EU Ministers agreed a 2020 target to unilaterally reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent from 1990 levels; agreed that a 30 percent cut by industrialized countries is needed to avoid catastrophic climate change; and committed to reducing emissions by 30 % if other developed countries do the same and if economically more advanced developing countries contribute adequately according to their respective responsibilities and capacities: Brussels European Council, 5/9 March 2007.

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.