Sentences with phrase «require wealthier nations»

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).

Not exact matches

Work Towards 25 - 40 % Emissions Reductions by 2020 On the subject of emission reductions targets — another area where there's a growing gap between what developing nations (and scientists) say is required and what wealthy nations seem politically willing to do — Mr De Boer said that emissions reductions in the range of 25 - 40 % by 2020 are something all nations should be working towards.

Providing audiences with abstract but scary information requiring sacrifice has produced apathy and denial among citizens of wealthy nations, the author says.

The last climate treaty, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, required only wealthy nations to cut emissions.

It outlined a weak agreement that required fewer emissions cuts from wealthy nations.