Sentences with phrase «rich nation does»

It will be interesting to see what this oil - rich nation does to encourage its emerging clean - tech industries.

She rightly suspected that wanting and consuming, as rich nations do, don't necessarily lead to happiness.

I won't recount all that was said, from the names you could guess: Vice President of the Maldives (we're low - lying, doing a lot to go carbon neutral, why aren't rich nations doing more — which is true), the anti-fracking people (fracking is bad — which is true), Colin Beavan (rah rah rah), musicians (we play music, woo hoo).

Not exact matches

As a nation, we have a responsibility to our most vulnerable, and the richest of our citizens and the most profitable of our institutions should give more of their wealth to help those who don't have it.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

The world's upcoming generations will pay a huge price for their forefathers misdeeds and ill done financial fooleries... Let the RCC sit upon their riches while many nations drown in unwarranted financial miseries..!

We must insure that we do not become a nation or a global village of information - rich and information - poor.

«This doesn't happen in any other developed country in the world, and it should not happen here, the richest nation on the planet,» he says.

If the poorer nations are to improve their standard of living does this mean at least slower growth in the richer nations?

Even if this does not happen, even if the United States continues on as the greatest and richest and most powerful nation in the world for many generations to come, are you making preparations now to hold the fort for future Christian generations?

John Dos Passos famously wrote of America as «two nations» of rich vs. poor; in the new version those two nations are made up of blue - state modernists vs. red - state traditionalists.

Frank Rich of the Times witnessed the thirty - five thousand Promise Keepers gathered at Shea Stadium and did his homework by reading the Nation, which featured PK as its hysteria of the week.

In other words, richer nations have a greater responsibility than do poorer nations in being open to immigrants.»

Overpopulation in rich countries presents a much greater present threat to the health of the environment than does population growth in poor nations.

We can and should do better as the richest nation on earth.

Being owned by Nigerias» richest man, one of the most corrupt nations on the planet, just because he's very rich, doesn't make him the right person for the job.

France do not deserve to be at the world cup under such circumstances, and I do not agree that just because they're a big nation with a rich footballing history does not mean that they should be handed an express ticket to the finals.

The economic argument is debatable and opinions differ, but do you think the large numbers of struggling upstaters enjoy the high taxes, ever increasing fees (example: the cost to have your vehicle inspected DOUBLED from 2010 to 2011 and is now one of the highest in the nation) and endless financial burdens they as lower and middle class people endure while the rich bankers and CEOs downstate laugh at them?

Did you notice that the bank bailout (TARP), which included a lot more than banks, was one of the most egregious cases of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor in our nation's history?

Anyhoo, did you notice that the bank bailout (TARP), which included a lot more than banks, was one of the most egregious cases of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor in our nation's history?

She went on to reiterate Ed Miliband's «One Nation» message, saying that the country deserved to be united and does not have a «divide of the rich against the poor, the North and South and the public against the private.»

The richest nation in the world still doesn't believe in climate change!

The Pentagon does not want its military bases to be at the mercy of unpredictable oil - rich nations or volatile price shifts.

Emerging economies like Saudi Arabia and China, the world's top emitter, want rich countries to commit to doing more to cut greenhouse gas output while allowing poorer nations to burn more fossil fuels to build their economies and end poverty.

Brazil has also tried to act as a bridge between poor and rich nations that are still at odds over how much each should do to reduce greenhouse emissions.

The leaders of the world's Group of Eight richest nations this week pledged to work toward halving global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 but did not announce exactly how they plan to achieve this.

Of course there may be other reasons for that (poverty, disease), but just looking at rich developed nations, the Japanese are thinner than Americans and also eat much less meat — though they do eat more fish.

You know, the bottom line here is, it doesn't make sense that a nation that's the most powerful, richest nation in the world is unable to provide a good education for all of its children.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation.

Like say, with oil, you can use exactly how much oil is being produced, you can look at the nations that need oil, how rich they are, how much oil do they need, what they're doing with it etc..

When compared with its neighbouring nations, Laos appears to have remained largely untouched by the hand of time, its rich culture and traditions upheld today as they have done for centuries.

Belize is home to unspoiled rainforests, endangered species, ancient Mayan cities and lush beaches, so if these criteria don't describe a nation rich in treasures, nothing will!

And yet, just like any colonialist nation - state does with resource - rich territory, you appropriate it for your own purpose.

Norway is among the richest nations in the world but does not see a path away from its dependence on oil and gas extraction.

But if rich nations all agree that capping emissions in developing countries is not yet expected because they haven't reached our level of emissions, doesn't that null and void the whole point of cutting emissions?

Rich nations want guarantees that the money will be used appropriately, while poor nations want to ensure they don't lose their sovereignty in exchange for their resources.

The core panel conclusion, of course, is that rich and developing nations are way behind on what would need to be done to avoid substantial and largely irreversible (on meaningful time scales) warming of the climate.

Cutthroat competition between nations has deadlocked U.N. climate negotiations for decades: rich countries dig in their heels and declare that they won't cut emissions and risk losing their vaulted position in the global hierarchy; poorer countries declare that they won't give up their right to pollute as much as rich countries did on their way to wealth, even if that means deepening a disaster that hurts the poor most of all.

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.

There's been a sense this year of developed countries hiding behind negotiations on other issues, such as agricultural policy, to avoid reaching the point where money has to be talked about, but developing countries want to see that richer nations are doing more than just expressing sympathy and empathy and instead are putting their money where their mouth is on climate action.»

But only four - in - ten Americans say rich nations should do more to address climate change than developing countries, while half of U.S. respondents say developing countries should do just as much.

Rich, industrialised countries like the EU and US have a legal obligation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC — which the talks fall under) to take the lead in cutting their emissions while providing the finance and technology to poorer countries to adapt to climate impacts and avoid the same fossil - fuel intensive development pathways they did.

But we as the richest nations are willing to take the lead and we affirm our commitment to do so.»»

«did those doctors fudge data, keep other doctor's opposing reports from being peer reviewed, keep data from being reviewed, and would the cure involve redistribution wealth from rich nations to poor nations?»

Furthermore i expect dat the rich oil nations do the right thing: investing in renewables.

Mediated through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, mechanisms exist that allow for the transfer of funds and capacity from richer to poorer countries to enable the latter to meet their obligations (i.e., the Central African Forest Initiative; Müller 2016), as well as a staged process for poorer countries to reduce emissions in line with their capacity to do so.

That the United Nations, most governments of the world, and all those involved in carbon trading schemes are salivating at the thought of taxing the snot out of all of us, redistributing wealth from rich to poor countries, making billions on carbon trading schemes, and having a one - world order fired up where we'll all do the United Nations bidding just makes me more suspicious about sending up one - armed satellites.

HT: Voicing his concern on «painfully slow» progress in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hit at rich nations for not doing enough to fight climate change.

Second, Branko does not insist that growth is necessary in rich nations.

To do so with any semblance of fairness towards developing countries will require the rich and middle - income nations to do much, much better.