Sentences with phrase «rich countries»

Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure.

During the 20th century, a small number of rich countries produced the vast majority of the world's carbon emissions.

It has constantly been under attack from rich countries who have ignored and diluted its core tenants in the last 21 years of negotiations.

They allow for rich countries to continue to emit and have potentially devastating affects on people working within the land sector.

Developing countries that have seen the text are understood to be furious that it is being promoted by rich countries without their knowledge and without discussion in the negotiations.

This directly contradicts your claim that people are only against chemical weapons because rich countries with fancy conventional weapons want them to be.

I think the number of even higher because the 4 billion assumes that the justice systems in rich countries don't face an access to justice challenge.

Many of the largest, most resource rich countries also happen to have large populations.

However, as I have emphasized repeatedly, this problem can not be solved if rich countries act alone.

They will also seek agreement on how much rich countries should pay to help poor nations to deal with climate change.

This pack looks at how rich countries are contributing the most to climate change while poor countries suffer its worst affects.

The 1997 treaty to reduce emissions covered only rich countries.

Developing nations say rich countries should cut emissions by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.

This is a very rich country that, in my opinion, eats like it is still poor.

Let me be clear that I'm not talking here about the long philosophical debate on the relative merits of growth — that rich countries getting richer does not improve their quality of life.

All the same there is homelessness, youth frustration and unrest, crime in rich countries too.

Without rich countries help, poor will just depend on coal.

They added that this would involve the world reducing emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 - and rich countries cutting theirs by 30 per cent by 2020.

This is meaningless without requiring rich countries to cut their emissions drastically and provide finance in line with their fair share, and places the extra burden on developing countries.

Some want all the money to come from rich country governments, but those governments are adamant that they will not provide such funding solely from the public purse.

Because rich countries produce most of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

Mostly poor West African nations may be responsible for the growth of cocoa, but it's mostly people in rich countries consuming it.

During the 20th century, a small number of rich countries produced the vast majority of the world's carbon emissions.

As many in the developing world — the countries whose populations are likely to suffer from the effects of climate change the most — see it, rich country targets are not ambitious enough.

Doing so is the best contribution we can make to helping promote both strong, steady economic growth and the flexibility needed to ease those adjustments and help our resource - rich country thrive.

For an export - oriented rich country, that is still a solid growth rate.

But the pattern of poor countries saving a lot and rich countries borrowing was not sustainable.

Yet I see no mention of the Mexican bishops struggling with the moral dimensions of the disproportionate lack of opportunities in their own rich country.

This football club is run like a poorly managed rich country.

Today roughly 10 per cent of each age cohort in rich countries receives more in a single inheritance than the lifetime income of someone in the bottom 50 per cent of income earners.

According to the authors reducing consumption and achieving more sustainable lifestyles in rich countries thus represents the most effective way to reduce carbon emissions and ultimately deliver health benefits.

In rich countries information officers translate that into 30 minutes of activity a day.

So, as you can see that this site has users from almost every single rich country of the world.

The glaring gap between the yields of basic crops in poor and rich countries offers huge low - cost opportunities to improve people's lives and cut environmental impacts from farming.

That is, to force rich countries to quietly destroy their economies and for the poor economies, with the highest death rates, to reject energy & prosperity.

A report about rich countries cheating poor countries of about $ 30 billion in climate funds made headlines last week.

And just 34 % of Japanese believe rich countries should do more about climate change, while 58 % say developing countries should do just as much as wealthy nations.

The relation holds true for rich countries and poor, as seen above in each rising line.

When it comes to interpreting a climate pledge by richer countries to help poorer ones tackle the problem of climate change, about $ 60 billion last year.

«The climate change that we are experiencing now is a result of the historical emissions of rich countries,» she argues.

Yet aid from rich countries to build sewage systems has fallen.

Now it must meet its promises to cut emissions and work with other rich countries to ensure they do the same.

Many forest - rich countries do not have strong enough institutions and processes needed to value and protect forests and people who depend on them.

It's so painful to see how most of the other resource rich countries have managed to keep the wealth and jobs for generations to come.

One major issue is how much richer countries will pay poorer ones to lower their emissions.