Sentences with phrase «other rich nations»

That ring - fencing is welcome, especially when contrasted with the actions of other rich nations, but real leadership in fighting poverty is about more than just standing still while others reverse.

Europe, Japan, and the republics that used to constitute the Soviet Union are overpopulated along with other rich nations because of their massive contributions to the greenhouse effect and the deterioration of their soils and waters.

Fed by this belief, Canada's home ownership rate rose to eclipse most other rich nations», up almost 10 % since 2000.

Here's the killer: New Zealand, Australia, Japan and other rich nations want to be eligible for the CDM even if they are not undertaking a second commitment period of emissions reductions under the Kyoto Protocol.

This will, hopefully, lead to a broadband price war, finally giving U.S. customers the fast, cheap broadband that other rich nations enjoy — and making us forget we ever worried about net neutrality.

Today, as the 17th round of climate change talks open in Durban, South Africa, my fat cat country is banding together with other rich nations to ensure that no significant global treaty on climate -LSB-...]

Wheeling out a discredited argument from the Kyoto years the Abbott Government is now asking the world to give Australia special dispensation to pollute at higher levels because our population is expected to grow more quickly than those of other rich nations.

Such a move is likely to upset Washington and other rich nations that are home to many global tech giants.

The European Commission said on Thursday it may seek to implement tax reform to raise more revenue from online giants without the backing of the United States and other rich nations, in a move that could spark a new transatlantic dispute.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- The dollar rose to its highest in over four years against a basket of currencies on Thursday after the Federal Reserve's guidance on interest rates highlighted the diverging pathways between the United States and other rich nations.

It boasts more Nobel prizes per million people than any other rich nation; it has two home - grown pharmaceutical giants, Roche and Novartis; and it is home to the world's biggest science experiment at CERN.

The first international survey of adult literacy shows that Americans» reading skills — as poor as they may be — are on par with those of citizens of some of the world's other richest nations.

The U.S. with 4.5 % of the global population can not continue to consume roughly a quarter of Earth's resources; similar statements apply to the other rich nations.

Instead, the U.S. and other rich nations are shifting attention away from themselves by waxing poetic about «mobilizing private finance.»