Sentences with phrase «poor island nations»

This poor island nation is regularly hit by plague outbreaks, but they are typically the relatively less dangerous bubonic form, transmitted from rats to humans by fleas, and occur largely in remote areas.

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They made more than 120 cloth diapers and a couple of dozen receiving blankets and purchased a couple of dozen pairs of plastic pants to send to the Caribbean island nation, where poorer families average $ 90 to $ 300 a year.

«She had concluded plans to run off to a Caribbean Island to live off the blood money she stole, not hauled from the poorest and the most vulnerable citizens of this nation.

is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

The concept of sustainable development is being criticized, in Brazil and in other Latin American countries, since the word development is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

Puerto Rico is quickly becoming a poster child for a problem that spans the globe; the disproportionate impacts of climate change risks on the poor, vulnerable and especially colonial and island nations.

States with the lowest per capita transportation and residential emissions (New York, District of Columbia, Oregon, California, Rhode Island, Washington, Vermont, and New Hampshire) are by no means the poorest in the nation; indeed, these states are all above the national average in per capita income.

When the 2 - degree limit was agreed to at a 2010 conference in Cancún, Mexico, it faced intense opposition from the low - lying island nations and poor countries at greatest risk from rising sea levels and extremes of weather.

The countries that left claim to have the support of other coalitions of poor nations, including the Least Developed Countries, the Alliance of Small Island States and the Africa Group.

Poorer nations, particularly low - lying coastal and island nations that are most at risk for becoming submerged under a rising sea level, prefer the agreement to embrace the much more difficult target of 1.5 ° Celsius.

The US and Europe have long opposed any deals that would require wealthier nations to compensate poorer countries for «loss and damages» caused by global warming (say, low - lying islands that vanish under the rising seas).

AFP is reporting that Denmark has agreed to sponsor the Maldives» trip: Saying that as the Maldives will be one of the nations worst affected by climate change, Denmark has ponied up $ 2.5 million in funds so that the world's poorest nations and low - lying island states will be able to attend the summit.

It is typically done in poor nations, near sheltered archipelagos or on the leeward sides of island nations, and can offer great opportunities for economic development, often as family run enterprises.

More: Reuters Global Climate Change Worst - Case IPCC Climate Change Trajectories Are Being Realized First Official Climate Change Refugees Evacuate Their Island Homes For Good Poorer Nations Tell the Rich: You Must Cut Emissions 40 % Below 1990 Levels by 2020

The report, which is the second installment of a three - part series of scientific updates from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sharply warns that climate change poses the greatest risks to the most vulnerable populations within all nations, and a potentially existential risk to poorer countries already struggling with food insecurity and civil conflict, as well as low - lying small island states.