Sentences with phrase «rich nations need»

Rich nations need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and at least 80 to 95 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.

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.

Not exact matches

The deal marks a major milestone for Argentina and its new president, Mauricio Macri, restructuring the lion's share of the debt remaining from the default and freeing up the nation to tap international markets for much - needed financing as its commodities - rich economy falters.

CIFAR is finding the root causes of human diseases, developing technology to improve quality of life, bridging the divide between rich and poor nations, and meeting our future energy needs.

«It leverages state control of the financial system to channel low - cost capital to domestic industries — and to resource - rich foreign nations whose oil and minerals China needs to maintain rapid growth.»

I understand that as the richest nation in the world we need raw resources, materials and markets, I am all for and, I enjoy it but I think we should go about getting it in a different way then the cold war era tactics.

Before corrective action can be taken, one needs to have as clear a picture as can be had of the constellation of factors that have led to life - frustrating situations that call for change, whether the issue be poverty, pollution, overpopulation, or the rich - poor gap among the nations.

The poor of each and every nation or country find peace in their pittiful existence and their needs are few when compared to the needs of the most rich!

Deng Xiaoping, China's reformist leader from 1978 to 1992, proclaimed that China had been victorious in the revolution and in class struggle, and now needed to reform and modernize, in order to achieve its ultimate objective — becoming a rich and strong nation able to withstand foreign pressure.

As a major oil producer, involving the private sector — and I am aware that Dangote is building some refineries and tank storage capacities — it should be possible to process Nigerian oil locally into finished petroleum products and export them to West Africa and the rest of Africa without us having to import petroleum products from outside.Speaking as a former leader of an African country, I can tell you that our quest to build our countries into industralised economies that can begin refining our own raw materials and manufacturing what we need, is not a development paradigm that the rich nations are enthused about.

While developing and developed nations must cooperate to build capacity, richer nations must respect the need of developing nations for self - determination.

At recent United Nations meetings, it has been broadly agreed that money needs to be channelled from rich nations, which are historically responsible for the bulk of emissions, to poorer nations, which tend to suffer most from the impacts of those emiNations meetings, it has been broadly agreed that money needs to be channelled from rich nations, which are historically responsible for the bulk of emissions, to poorer nations, which tend to suffer most from the impacts of those eminations, which are historically responsible for the bulk of emissions, to poorer nations, which tend to suffer most from the impacts of those eminations, which tend to suffer most from the impacts of those emissions.

Almost 200 nations kept a plan to reach a new U.N. climate pact in 2015 alive on Saturday when rich and poor countries reached a compromise on sharing out the efforts needed to slow global warming.

But poor nations argue that more pressing issues need to be ironed out, for example the overarching dispute between rich and poor countries over how to share efforts to cut emissions, before more market - based mechanisms are developed or the groundwork for a global trading scheme is laid.

Earlier this year, Wu Xiaoqing, vice minister of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, said in a press conference that «central and western China are rich in coal and have a bigger environmental capacity; we encourage adopting coal - to - gas technology there, and use the produced gas to replace coal needed in the eastern part of the nation.»

Not very well, according to the latest estimate of the carbon cuts promised by rich nations, which shows that the pledges made so far fall short of what is needed to avoid dangerous climate change.

This means that there would be the need to overcome the root causes of violence, within each nation, with the elimination of disparities in wealth between the «top» and «bottom» in the social scale and at international level with the elimination of disparities in economic and social development between rich and poor nations, for one hand, and the dispute between the great powers for world power, on the other hand.

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..

To mark the occasion, Olav Kjorven, assistant secretary general of the United Nations for development policy, submitted a comment on my recent post asking if the world's wealthiest people need new goals even as rich countries work to foster human and environmental progress elsewhere.

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.

India and other developing countries quite rightly claim they need and deserve money, plainly speaking, both to switch to lower - carbon energy systems and to brace themselves for the impacts that are already locked in by past carbon emitted by richer nations.

More precisely, since carbon - based growth is no longer a viable option in either the North or the South, we frame the problem as one of urgently needed decarbonization in a twice - divided world, one sharply polarized between the nations of the North and the nations of the South and, on both sides, between the rich and the poor people within those nations.

«Many present efforts to guard and maintain human progress, to meet human needs, and to realize human ambitions are simply unsustainable — in both the rich and poor nations.

It is often said that whoever governs the oil - rich nations of the Greater Middle East will need to sell their oil.

With only four months left, rich nations must come up with substantial initial fund pledges to build the trust needed to address the global climate crisis.

Perhaps Blomqvist — or anyone at the Breakthrough Institute — could explain why they think that rich, high - consuming nations (like the US, for instance) need to keep growing their GDP (forever?)

For a nation as rich in natural wealth and resources as Brazil, this transition of power is not important merely in terms of politics or global affairs, but perhaps for something much farther - reaching — like demonstrating to the world that social and economic progress and development needn't necessarily be in conflict with the preservation of the natural world.

In one fell swoop, the provision of resources to adapt to climate change has been made solely dependent on market mechanisms, when in fact what is needed is a fulfillment of the legal obligations of the Convention by rich nations providing the funds.