Sentences with phrase «poor regions of the world»

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

It would also be a «real enabler for people in poorer regions of the world,» Musk said, though he later conceded that SpaceX would need permission from countries to operate the service, a process that could be difficult, if not impossible.

Efforts are underway by various certification bodies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and global food companies to develop the production around poorest regions of the world, such as Africa, and to measure the actual impacts that the various initiatives, standards.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

«The prevalence and severity of global malnutrition could drop significantly by 2050, particularly in the poorest regions of the world,» said Thomas Hertel, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics.

For people living in the poorest regions of the world without access to, or money for electric bulbs, the bottle light has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life, as Notions Capital describes it, for «billions of poor people in sun - swept favelas, shantytowns, and bidonvilles and scattered rural dwellings around the globe.»

Many of our climate protection projects promote development in the poorest regions of the world and help levelling economic disparities.

There is good reason to predict that climate change will cause devastation especially in the poor regions of the world, where population growth, poverty, the pollution of water and air, inequalities between classes and genders, AIDs epidemics and corrupt, authoritarian governments all overlap.

Girls in the poorest regions of the world are more likely than boys to be malnourished and be denied access to education.

Not exact matches

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South Asia, one of the poorest regions in the world, now has more than 900 million poor people of whom 450 million are in India.

For example, Aloysius Pieris contended that «the common denominator between Asia and the rest of the Third World is its overwhelming poverty,» and that «the specific character which defines Asia [in comparison with]... other poor [regions] is its multifaceted religiosity.

Earlier this year, on January 26th, 2010, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Stephen Harper, announced his intention to make maternal and child health a development priority for the upcoming G8 Summit, saying that «Canada will champion a major initiative to improve the health of women and children in the world's poorest regions.»

Mr. Lyeo exhorted the minister to have hope for a brighter future for the region because 50 years ago, South Korea was among the poorest countries in the world, but with the strong determination of the leadership and government coupled with community participation, the Republic of South Korea has emerged as one of the world's most industrialized countries within five decades.

«To bring together the peoples of Europe,, to raise living standards and improve working conditions, to promote growth and boost world trade, to help the poorest regions of Europe and the rest of the world, to help maintain peace and freedom,» Johnson read.

The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

The possibilities here, it seems, vastly outweigh the good, with the worst case probably involving the displacement of several billion people from the poorest coastal regions of the world, with concomitant social, economic and political upheaval, possible starvation from regional losses in agriculture, and rises in international tensions, terrorism and political instability.

The models show that climate change is a less influential driver of global food security than income, population and productivity — but it could still pose a significant risk to the nutrition levels of people living in the world's poorest regions, Baldos said.

The research could lead to better air purifiers, particularly in regions of the world that suffer from very poor air quality.

The supply of climate change knowledge is biased towards richer countries — those that pollute the most and are least vulnerable to climate change — and skewed away from the poorer, fragile and more vulnerable regions of the world.

Such data is also needed to better track illegal international movements of e-waste from richer to poor regions in the world.

They will arrive in the poor regions, but aspire to income and consumption levels of the rest of the world.

According to WHO, deaths from heat exposure will be especially pronounced over the coming decades, from 92,000 to as much as 250,000 deaths worldwide per year by midcentury, with the greatest rates of death occurring in the world's poorest regions.

«If we want to stem the tide of new infections around the world, we must focus our efforts on resource - poor regions such as Africa, Asia and the Middle East.»

Read the comedian's essay for TIME on changing the world of online dating The talking points from the Dragons» Euro defeat as poor attendance shows the region still has a long way to go.

Review of A Small Section of the World by Associate Editor Brigid K. Presecky Set in a poor, green mountain region of Costa Rica during the economic downturn of the 1990s, Lesley Chilcott's documentary follows of a group of coffee manufactures and their journey of entrepreneurial success.

In far too many regions of the world, a stark educational achievement gap still exists between rich and poor students.

As in many poor regions around the world, there is an overabundance of dogs in Puerto Lopez Mateos, a fishing town in the Baja region of Mexico.

Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin have a sobering story in The Times showing declines in funding for agricultural development assistance and basic research even as the world's poorest regions face spiking prices and shortages of basic foods.

On the other hand, the poorer regions I mentioned do not have operating nuclear power plants or economies interdependent with our own, and so on March 11 we were also starkly reawakened to the vulnerabilities of the wealthy world.

GALKAIYO, Somalia — Ahmed Mahamoud Hassan has probably one of the worst jobs on the planet: drought chairman of the Galmudug region of Somalia, one of the hottest, driest, poorest patches of one of the world's most utterly failed states.

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

Food access could be threatened by climate change impacts on productivity in important cereal - producing regions of the world which, along with other factors, could raise food prices and erode the ability of the poor in Africa to afford purchased food.

While in New Delhi attending the 19th Organic World Congress of IFOAM - Organics International, Moyer had the unique opportunity to meet with Sudheer Mudar, a forward - thinking entrepreneur who is using his organic essential oils export business, Mudar India Exports, to transform poor farming communities in the region.

These regions are home to 1.5 bn people, one fifth of the world's population, many of whom survive on subsistence farming: they are among the world's poorest.

Venezuela Before Chavez: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece, Israel, and Spain.

Taking better account of impacts on the world's poor — not just the world's poorest regions — suggests the impacts could be worse than earlier projections.

The region is the home of about 1.5 billion of the world's population and a chunk of the global poor.

Home to two thirds of the world's poor, the region will require the mobilization of vast resources to address its development challenges, with estimates of annual investment requirements amounting to around $ 2.1 trillion.

From another angle, if the US wasn't so utterly dependent on fossil fuels it would not have to spend so much money supporting the national and corporate goals of ensuring that the oil keeps flowing, in the process supporting despotic regimes, even supporting friendly governments trying to peddle their environmentally destructive oil as a better alternative to those regimes, and de facto supporting rampant environment destruction in some of the world's poorest regions.

As this series of reviews unwinds, we see a landscape in which the central claims of mainstream climate science is judged to be untouched: a landscape in which man - made climate change is very likely happening, and its effects are projected to be significant in many regions of the world, particularly in regions populated by the poor.

The report also says, changing weather and rising temperatures are likely to affect food production in many of the world's poorest regions.

This is not surprising, because of the under - representation of journalists from the poorer regions of the developing world at major climate meetings.