Sentences with phrase «responsibilities of wealthy countries»

Touching on the current deadlock in Copenhagen over the responsibilities of wealthy countries versus developing countries, the Pope writes that «the present ecological crisis is the historical responsibility of the industrialized countries.

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Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how to distribute responsibility for the $ 100 - billion in annual aid that wealthy nations have promised to give poor countries to enable them to adjust to climate impacts.

Napoleon and the pigs partying with humans at the end of George Orwell's Animal Farm displayed more humility than a wealthy Brexit bunch smugly pleased with itself on the night the independent Office for Budget Responsibility forecast they'll cost the country # 60 - billion.

He would return from wealthy men's villas moaning to his intimates about how unfair it was that he, with all the responsibilities of leading a G8 country, was so impecunious compared with the super-rich.

«On the phone a lot» to save Kyoto The exchange took place nearly three years after U.S. negotiators helped to broker the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that allowed wealthy countries to trade for emissions credits to cover some of their reduction responsibilities.

Instead of implementing laws on the books and standing up to corporate power, the wealthy countries historically responsible for causing the climate crisis are ignoring their moral and legal responsibility to act by dismantling the rules that have the highest chance of delivering a safe climate future.

This gives us a clear mandate, one that may be challenged by events in Washington, but which will not be pushed aside to fight for a framework within which all countries, but first of all the wealthy ones, make the commitments demanded by the science, and by their own historical responsibility and capacity to act.