Sentences with phrase «rich nations»

In fact, he seems to agree that we can maintain well - being in rich nations while reducing material consumption.

How can it be that the seventh richest nation on the planet denies its people a healthy retirement?

That, the paper says, will require a staggering $ 45 trillion dollar to accomplish — much of it in transfers from rich nations to poorer ones.

The bank, which is dominated by rich nations, wants to take command of a network of agricultural research centres and their priceless collections of genetic varieties of crops.

Poor countries are supposed to receive $ 100 billion per year by 2020 to help them achieve this, but many rich nations are already failing to deliver the promised funds.

Yet here, perhaps, is the best way in which richer nations can effectively help the poorer ones.

The world's poorest nations are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels, more extremes of droughts and floods and say rich nations should help them with cash to try to adapt.

The figure is higher there because use of all 11 vaccines is more likely than in richer nations where, for example, TB shots are no longer deemed necessary for all.

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

The most detailed analysis to date of how well rich nations have kept promises to provide poorer ones with funds to tackle climate change was released today.

It's about foreign governments and corporations (the Chinese prominent amongst them) buying up land because they know that rich nations consume more food than they can.

How can it be that the seventh richest nation on the planet be brought to this pass?

Does everyone shoulder an equal burden, or should rich nations go first and further?

Reduced demand for foreign oil, meanwhile, could lower the price of a barrel to about $ 25, and make oil - rich nations less powerful.

Developing countries argue rich nations are responsible for the bulk of historical greenhouse gases and must lead the way.

A persistent complaint about the climate change negotiation process is that it favors a handful of rich nations.

In particular, there was controversy over whether they should include plans on how to adapt for the impacts of climate change and further financial donations from rich nations to the poor.

Indeed, people in rich nations are not happier than people in poor nations.

2012 marks the end of the two - year period during which rich nations must prove that they have cut emissions from 1990 levels.

Europe, Japan, and the republics that used to constitute the Soviet Union are overpopulated along with other rich nations because of their massive contributions to the greenhouse effect and the deterioration of their soils and waters.

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

Emerging economies like India have resisted pressure in global climate talks to commit to targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in a dispute with rich nations over whose industries should bear the brunt of the cuts.

The division between rich nations and poor nations continues to grow; the contrast between northern and southern regions of our planet becomes ever more marked and intolerable.

Despite what science calls for, despite calls from the developing world that we must make deep cuts or many nations will be devastated by climate change and not be able to adapt, despite the fact that there are examples among rich nations of truly significant reductions (viz..

Just out of curiosity, why does that chart omit the very religious oil rich nations of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and to a degree, Iran?

And India, China, and Mexico are going to start using more energy, so if rich nations cut down, it's still going to be overwhelmed by the others.

This, they say, shows poorer nations that decarbonization will be a global effort, and they won't get stuck with painful carbon cuts while rich nations continue to pollute.

China and India are already offering proportionally and historically more than they quite reasonably believe rich nations like Australia are offering.

Image copyright Reuters Rich nations at UN climate talks are said to be edging towards a compromise on the thorny issue of loss and damage.

The envoys deadlocked on finance, with China, India Bangladesh, Cuba, Nepal and Nicaragua demanding rich nations agree to an interim milestone on the way toward their $ 100 billion aid pledge.

Even as many of the world's rich nations seek to phase out the use of coal, Asia's two most developed economies are burning more than ever and plan to add at least 60 new coal - fired power plants over the next 10 years.

India invokes «right to grow» to tell rich nations of its stand on future climate change negotiations

One front - page article, «Oil - Rich Nations Use More Energy, Cutting Exports: Strains On The Market» (by Clifford Krauss), focused mainly on the availability of oil and the consumption patterns of all sorts of countries, other than the U.S..

The countries — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives and Afghanistan — jointly asked rich nations to fulfill their promises of emission cuts during the pre-2020 phase (second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol) as this action alone would convince the rest of the world about their intention and commitment post-2020 based on next year's global climate deal.

As for decommoditizing social goods, there is overwhelming popular support for this in most rich nations.

WHEN the leaders of the world's seven richest nations meet in Nova Scotia next week, they will promise to help Ukraine close down the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

Next month's University of California report warns that unless China radically changes its energy policies, its increases in greenhouse gases will be several times larger than the cuts in emissions being made by rich nations under the Kyoto Protocol.

Here's the killer: New Zealand, Australia, Japan and other rich nations want to be eligible for the CDM even if they are not undertaking a second commitment period of emissions reductions under the Kyoto Protocol.

Norwegian property prices have tripled since the mid-1990s, up nearly 30 % since the Great Recession as the oil - rich nation rode the coattails of the commodities bubble and has benefited from the same «flight to safety» capital flows that have benefited (and inflated bubbles in) other Nordic countries.

In the 1970s there was much talk about a new international economic order that would redress the injustice of poverty - stricken nations alongside rich nations that were overdeveloped.

The Climate Change Convention, agreed at the Earth Summit last year, requires rich nations to halt their rising emissions of carbon dioxide to end the threat of the greenhouse -LSB-...]

ENVIRONMENTAL economists are refusing to revise a controversial report on the social cost of global warming, which values the lives of people in rich nations up to fifteen times higher than those in poor countries.

Outside of Brazil, few developing countries are making necessary investments to improve agricultural productivity, and the financial crisis is not going to encourage rich nations lend a helping hand.

At the same time, field collection of these samples is becoming difficult due to rising concerns worldwide that the natural assets of biodiversity - rich nations need protection from over-sampling, excessive commercialization, and habitat destruction.

Telegraph: A third of humanity, mostly in Africa and South Asia, face the biggest risks from climate change while rich nations in northern Europe will be least exposed, according to a report released Wednesday.

The cities most at risk in richer nations include Miami, Boston and Nagoya, while cities in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Ivory Coast are among those most in danger in less wealthy countries.