Ms. Wood said the research partnerships that ACIAR builds with organizations, such as IRRI, reflect not only Australian aid priorities and the country's national research strengths, but also the agricultural
priorities of developing country partners.
The Convention is very clear: «The extent to which developing country Parties will effectively implement their commitments -LSB-...] will depend on the effective implementation by developed country Parties of their commitments -LSB-...] related to financial resources and transfer of technology and will take fully into account that economic and social development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding
priorities of the developing country Parties.»
The language on emissions peaking did not specify a 2020 target year, as some countries were pushing hard for, but instead strove for peaking «as soon as possible,» and even then, with very elaborate and unambiguous qualifying language on developing countries» right to develop («recognizing that the time frame for peaking will be longer in developing countries and bearing in mind that social and economic development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding
priorities of developing countries and that a low - emission development strategy is indispensable to sustainable development»).
It says: «developed countries intend to continue their existing collective mobilization goal through 2025 in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation; prior to 2025 the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement shall set a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year, taking into account the needs and
priorities of developing countries».
Furthermore, as part of a global effort, developed country Parties should continue to take the lead in mobilizing climate finance from a wide variety of sources, instruments and channels, noting the significant role of public funds, through a variety of actions, including supporting country - driven strategies, and taking into account the needs and
priorities of developing country Parties.
At COP 21, it was also decided that developed countries intend to continue their existing collective mobilization goal through 2025 in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation, and that prior to 2025 the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties (CMA) to the Paris Agreement shall set a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year, taking into account the needs and
priorities of developing countries.
This directly goes against the principles of the UNFCCC and is outlined in Article 4 (7): «The extent to which developing country Parties will effectively implement their commitments under the Convention will depend on the effective implementation by developed country Parties of their commitments under the Convention related to financial resources and transfer of technology and will take fully into account that economic and social development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding
priorities of the developing country Parties.»
Not exact matches
Its strategy consists
of four key components: 1) Priority identification — we respond to the crop biotechnology needs and
priorities identified by
developing countries; 2) Technology appraisal — we work to identify, evaluate, and facilitate the acquisition
of new crop biotechnology applications; 3) Project implementation — we implement a portfolio
of crop biotechnology projects that have a potential for near - term impact in food, feed, fiber crops, and forestry; and 4) Services for the enabling environment — we provide advice and services to assist in the development
of an enabling environment to support the safe application
of crop biotechnology.
While recent initiatives have attempted to address conservation
priorities at global and national scales, most
of these focus on
developed countries in temperate regions.
Michael Merson, director
of the WHO's Global Programme on AIDS, said that the syndrome was worthy
of research, but stressed that the top
priority must continue to be research into HIV - positive AIDS, which already overwhelms health services in many
developing countries.
Rick Johnston
of the World Health Organization says that for many people in
developing Asian
countries such as Bangladesh, India and Nepal, water filtration is not always a top
priority.
It's put climate change leaders in a variety
of key positions, made climate change a
priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting
countries, both industrialized and
developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.
In
developing countries like Uganda, where floods, food and water shortages, outbreaks
of disease, the effects
of HIV / AIDS, and internal conflicts occur, the funding
of scientific research [will not be the first
priority].
The second area
of priority is the need for strengthened technical assistance — and funding — to
develop appropriate Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) programmes across the Caribbean, in recognition that some 27 %
of young men drop out
of the mainstream schooling system in our
countries, becoming disenfranchised and unemployable.
In this sense, the voice
of the peoples
of the Least
Developed Countries - LDCs, Least Industrialized
Countries - LICs, Small Island States - SISs, Land Locked States - LLSs must be heard as a
priority for the goals to be properly created.
In preparation for this Forum, UNESCO is organizing regional ministerial conferences with the aim to provide a platform for
countries of the region to review and analyze the EFA experience in the region,
develop a regional perspective on the emerging post-2015 education agenda and reflect on future
priorities and strategies to achieve the future agenda
While the primary role
of the rubber coating will be to impart protection to the tablet, solar charging options along with a satellite internet modem will no doubt be a boon in
developing countries where both power and reliable internet connection is often not accorded the top most
priority.
The short listed museums reflect a range
of approaches to the
priorities for the Award: to
develop an outstanding new work from an artist who may be showing widely but who is not yet represented in public collections in this
country, or, whose work is an important fit with an existing collection.
Other
priorities will be finance (especially funding to help
developing countries to meet the cost
of adapting to the impacts
of climate change), and building closer relationships between them and the
developed world.
India on Wednesday reiterated its commitment to «protecting the interests
of the poor» at the Lima Climate Change talks, challenging rich nations who want to keep poverty eradication out
of a list
of priorities for
developing countries in a new climate pact to be signed next year in Paris.
The status
of the implementation
of the amended New Delhi work programme on Article 6
of the Convention in the least
developed countries was also assessed and emerging needs and
priorities, which could be included as possible elements
of a successor work programme, identified.
He said the government
of India welcomes the proposal made by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown for the mobilization
of at least US$ 100 billion by 2020 for supporting climate change action in
developing countries and the
priority Brown has given to the needs
of least
developed countries and small island
developing states.
Also implied is that, even if we give them everything we say we will,
developing countries may simply forget about their emission targets if they interfere with their «first and overriding
priorities»
of «economic and social development and poverty eradication.»
The current draft
of the agreement includes the option that new money should be provided after 2020 «in line with needs and
priorities identified by
developing country Parties».
Developing countries have limited finances and many
priorities, so a full assessment
of the risks and the identification
of ways
of maximizing the benefits from investments in bioenergy are fundamental.
As attentive readers will recall, the conference concluded that fighting AIDS should be the top global
priority in helping
developing countries and also that climate change mitigation was a waste
of money.
In addition, Article 9 states that the provision
of scaled - up financial resources should aim to achieve a balance between adaptation and mitigation, taking into account
country - driven strategies, and the
priorities and needs
of developing country Parties, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects
of climate change and have significant capacity constraints, such as the least
developed countries and small island
developing States, considering the need for public and grant - based resources for adaptation.
Developing countries are just that — developing — and they have priorities like poverty eradication and economic and human development to tak
Developing countries are just that —
developing — and they have priorities like poverty eradication and economic and human development to tak
developing — and they have
priorities like poverty eradication and economic and human development to take care
of.
The peaking
of global and national emissions should take place as soon as possible, recognizing that the timeframe for peaking will be longer in
developing countries, bearing in mind that social and economic development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding
priorities in
developing countries and that low - carbon development is indispensible to sustainable development.
This would still leave natural gas as a cleaner source
of energy when it comes to air pollution, which isn't nothing, especially in
developing countries like China and India where the air is so foul and toxic in many places that cleaning it up should be a
priority.
While it is important to continue this important work on land degraded by mining, as climate change
priorities develop rehabilitation
of country degraded by other activities such as agriculture, pastoral, land clearing, waste dumps, access development including roads and water, and tourism will become equally important.