Sentences with phrase «poorer developing countries»

Mearns claimed that poorer developing countries, which are less able to adapt (particularly in the tropics) would be the largest losers.

China had been a forceful proponent of financial assistance for the poorer developing countries and had been quick to acknowledge that it is not the «first candidate» for such assistance (see previous post «A Stern Warning?

At a news conference on Tuesday, Yu Qingtai, China's special representative on climate change, said China stood with poorer developing countries insisting that the financial obligation of rich nations to compensate poor ones fully for the costs attending climate change was enshrined in the original 1992 framework treaty.

It remains unclear whether the document will end up a «decision of the conference» or have limited support (because poorer developing countries block approval).

-- Brahm Fleisch The North - South or Rich - Poor Divide is the socio - economic and political division that exists between the wealthy developed countries, known collectively as «the North,» and the poorer developing countries, known...

Stefan: Even in the poorer developing countries, the children in schools now will grow up in a far more connected, complex world than they are experiencing today.

Stefan: In the poorer developing countries, education is not a guarantee anymore for a job; it never was a guarantee for an open society where elites are accountable.

In the 50 poorest developing countries, infant mortality averages over 100 deaths per thousand live births.

Abstract: The talk explores some of challenges for the management coral reefs when science is applied in poor developing countries.

WHO is an international body and looks at the very poor developing countries as well as at the developed countries.

While health indicators have been improving almost surprisingly fast, combining resources, systems, innovation and technology even in the poorest developing countries, the quality of education has suffered relative to the quantity in terms of enrollment at all levels.

The delay in two years will be paid for in blood, mainly people in poor developing countries, unfortunately, and the booing directed at the United States came from the knowledge that the U.S. is already trying to pretend that they didn't play a role in that outcome.

Fortunately, in poor developing countries, a lower birth rate means less mouths to feed, less hunger, less poverty, less subjugation of women, better education for children, and so on.

A Washington Post article on the hundreds of schools that collapsed when Haiti was rocked by the earthquake puts a fresh focus on the importance of providing a safe environment for learning, particularly in the poorest developing countries.

Even if he doesn't formally pull out of the climate treaty process, Trump could, for example, cancel payments pledged by the United States to a Green Climate Fund set up in 2010 to help the poorest developing countries build resilience to climate hazards and develop clean - energy systems.

The reasons for this are that the remaining carbon budget is so small, the per capita and historical emissions of high - emitting developed nations are so large compared to poor developing countries, and the financial resources of developed countries are so large compared to poor developing countries that equity considerations demand that the high - emitting nations financially help developing nations achieve their targets.

The enormity of growing costs for needed adaptation, loses, and damages in poor developing countries.

If each nation had to reduce their ghg emissions only to conform to the rates described in the reduction curves in the above chart despite their steepness, it would lead to grossly unfair results because of great differences among countries in per capita and historical emissions levels and urgent needs to increase energy consumption to escape grinding poverty in poor developing countries.

If the United States is a very large emitter of gigs compared to most other nations in terms of historical and per capita emissions, why doesn't the United States have an ethical duty to fund reasonable climate change adaptation measures in and losses and damages of poor developing countries that have done little or nothing to cause human - induced warming.

South Africa openly acknowledges the need to voluntarily respond to climate change despite being a poor developing country.

Just how to think about that is hard as nuclear plants will be built in a poor developing country but decomissioned in a rich developed one.

Asad Rehman head of climate and energy at Friends of the Earth had this to say «A weak and dangerously ineffectual agreement is nothing but a polluters charter — it legitimises a do - nothing approach whilst creating a mirage that governments are acting in the interests of the planet and its people,» «Doha was a disaster zone where poor developing countries were forced to capitulate to the interests of wealthy countries, effectively condemning their own citizens to the climate crisis.

Not exact matches

Rosling encourages people to use this framework, rather than use labels like «developed» and «developing,» because, as Gates explains, «It's hard to pick up on progress if you divide the world into rich countries and poor countries.

D'Alessandro counters that such poor international performance is more likely because of a lack of leadership, a problem extending back to the less - developed - country debt crisis of the late 1970s, when many developing countries defaulted on their bank loans.

The more progressive line argues, as Wolman does, that reliance on cash transactions «perpetuates [poor] peoples» exclusion from banking and the formal economy» and makes it hard for governments, especially in developing countries, to efficiently serve their citizens.

Those high regulatory costs, combined with low returns, tend to keep corporations from developing GM crops for poor countries.

Diplomatic observers said the European Union was wary of China's growing investment in the Balkans, central and eastern European countries and poorer EU members - which Beijing sees as gateways into the more developed European market - as it threatened unity and solidarity.

But for many poor people in Brazil, a developing country, those prices remain cruelly out of reach.

The Gates Foundation has donated more than $ 36 billion, including for projects that expand access to immunizations in developing countries and provide financial services to poor communities.

MSCI Sector Indexes comprise global, regional and country sector, industry group and industry indexes constructed using the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS ®), a widely accepted industry classification framework for investment research, portfolio management and asset allocation jointly developed and maintained by MSCI and Standard & Poor's.

The Indian negotiator retorted that a strong safeguard against such surges was essential to the livelihoods of the world's poorest farmers and «could not be traded off against the commercial interests of the developed countries.»

Many of the world's poor in developing countries — nearly 2 billion, according to the World Bank — struggle to lift themselves out of poverty simply because they don't have...

Stocks in Standard & Poor's 500 index — up 14.8 percent; socially responsible stocks — up 14.9 percent; smaller U.S. stocks — up 28.3 percent; emerging markets — up 16.1 percent; total international stocks (counting stocks in both the developed and emerging countries)-- up 9.6 percent; total U.S. stocks (both large and small companies)-- up 17.2 percent; and Real Estate Investment Trusts — up 28 percent.

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper's support for the mining industry has gone as far as outspokenly accusing those opposed to mining as being «in favour of keeping people poor» in developing countries.

It ushered in the age of globalization, it allowed countries like China to be revolutionized from a very poor, developing country, to the second largest economy in the world.

According to Bloomberg, «the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, whose increase in the past three months was the steepest in seven decades, is rallying in tandem with benchmark measures for raw materials, developing - country equities and hedge funds.

One of the greatest problems the poor have in this country and developing countries is that they tend to have too many children.

The quid pro quo is that developed nations are to transfer hundreds of billions to the poor countries, in essence, a bribe to keep from fully exploiting the bounteous resources of the continent.

The poor in developing countries are sometimes just as guilty of that.

Economists and policymakers know that the best and most enduring form of assistance developed countries can give to poor nations is not in direct grants but in open markets.

Rather, the majority believed less developed countries (LDCs) were poor primarily because of misguided and corrupt political and economic structures inside the LDCs.

Poorest education than any developed country.

I always crack up when the churches send those poor, scared teens to a developing country thinking that the mission field is out «there».

Sustainable development is an idea developed in World Council of Churches circles in the 1970s and 1980s, and focuses attention on how much poor countries should be allowed to develop before they jeopardise the environment on which we all depend, although Mr. Carr does not put itquite that way.

They have shown how what has been called development in their countries has not «developed» the mass of the poor people.

The only places it's growing are in poor uneducated developing countries, and the only hope the church has of remaining significant is to keep those countries that way.

I have tried to go beyond this by starting the conversation around environmental issues faced by the poor in developing countries and around small - scale non-political solutions.

Lifting the wretched of the earth out of their misery will require a combination of thoroughgoing economic and political reforms in the poor countries and substantial aid from the developed countries.

Equality before the law, separation of church and state, the humanity of women, peasants and children, free education and healthcare for the poor, even the idea that nature is subject to laws — all these developed in Christian countries, and nowhere else!

I believe that people, poor as they were by our standards, had more control over their own lives in those days than is possible today for most workers, especially in the developing countries.