Sentences with phrase «rich nations of»

That is not inappropriate: Climate change is, at its base, an environmental - justice issue, in which the rich nations of the world are inflicting damage on the poor ones.

An August 13, 2001 article by Keith Johnson published in The Wall Street Journal Europe forecasted a slowdown in wind energy development in the wind energy subsidy - rich nations of the U.S., Germany, Spain and Denmark which together account for more than 75 % the worldís installed wind energy capacity:... But now, it seems, the glory days may be past.

[73] Vishwa Mohan, «India Invokes «Right to Grow» to Tell Rich Nations of Its Stand on Future Climate Change Negotiations,» The Times of India, June 17, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/India-invokes-right-to-grow-to-tell-rich-nations-of-its-stand-on-future-climate-change-negotiations/articleshow/36724848.cms (accessed March 8, 2016).

The agreement was adopted hours after a previous draft was rejected by developing countries, who accused rich nations of shirking their responsibilities to fight global warming and pay for its impacts.

His way of calculation of the future wealth shows that the poor nations of today will compass the rich nations of today in the nearby future.

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

A basic tenet of climate justice is the acknowledgement of the hundreds of years and millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions that made the rich nations of Europe and North America develop.

At climate change meetings underway in Bonn, Germany to reduce the length of the draft document, the UN distributed some stats on how much the rich nations of the world

More broadly one could just as easily highlight how though overwhelmingly climate change has been caused by actions of the rich nations of the world (with China and a few other newly - industrialized and highly - deforesting nations added in), it will be the poorest nations of the world which will bear the greatest burden.

Under this new arrangement the exploited nations were integrated into the rich nations of the north as providers of raw materials and other products.

The problems are in part structural, coming from the combination of labor costs close to the US level but productivity more comparable to the richer nations of the Caribbean.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

You map railways in your article on the remotest places on Earth, saying «they are confined mainly to the richer nations of Europe, the US, Australia and Japan» (18 April, p 40).

Not exact matches

You have become the richest nation in the world, and you have built up the greatest system of production that history has ever known.

Many residents of Norway politely declined, according to Reuters, likely because «the Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet.»

Within a framework of sustainable development — including a cap - and - trade system and thorough environmental assessments — New Democrats would prioritize our own energy security and with it the creation of high - paying, value - added jobs, refining and upgrading our own natural resources right here in Canada — just as other resource - rich developed nations like Norway already have.

A rags - to - riches candidate — and one of Fortune's 50 World's Greatest Leaders — is in a tight race to become the leader of the world's fourth - largest nation

South of the border, there's a lot of attention being paid to the rich, as President Barack Obama and some wealthy Americans like Warren Buffett call on the most affluent to pay a greater share of taxes in that recession - torn nation.

Yang, controlling shareholder of Country Garden, saw her fortune soar to $ 25.6 billion as of Jan. 5 to rank as the fifth - richest person in the nation, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The richest Americans hold a historic amount of the nation's wealth, thanks largely to gains in the stock market and asset prices.

Such an insightful comment by David Thomson, or any of the nation's ultra rich, is rare.

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.

That power squarely rests with oil - rich nations that hold most of the world's oil reserves and the Wall Street banks and hedge funds that speculate and make markets in the oil trading game.

You stated your interest in a city where you can grow your company to 50,000 employees over the next 20 years, a home base that can hold your interest... a strong sense of place, a rich cultural life, great transit systems, smart young people and plenty of infrastructure - ready land that is close to both the business center and top universities... density, walkability, and diversity... some of the nation's finest universities... tech - savvy millennials... Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, offers all of these desirable attributes at a more affordable cost.

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.

It could be a tough sell for the president as he fights with saturation coverage of Hurricane Harvey and as Democrats prepare to frame Trump's approach as a giveaway to corporate fat cats and the nation's richest taxpayers.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- The dollar rose to its highest in over four years against a basket of currencies on Thursday after the Federal Reserve's guidance on interest rates highlighted the diverging pathways between the United States and other rich nations.

Peoples» attention has been distracted into speculation about of how they might get rich in a parallel universe that might exist in theory — if one accepts the narrow - minded assumptions that are being taught — but whose most important real - world consequence is to impose a debt spiral on America and other nations.

«Costa Ricans have higher wellbeing than the residents of many rich nations, including the U.S. and the U.K., and live longer than people in the U.S..

Venezuela, an oil - rich nation that went on a spending spree, is struggling to meet $ 10 billion in debt obligations this year, since 95 percent of export earnings depend on crude.

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.

He's among the richest men in Los Angeles and according to Forbes is the nation's richest doctor, with a net worth of $ 7.8 billion.

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.

U.S. energy firms are scrambling to finish a slew of pipelines that will unleash rich reserves of shale gas in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio as the nation prepares to Continue Reading

Ralph Waldo Emerson once described the 51 year old billionaire as a man or a company of men who was plastic and permeable to principles and by the law of nature overpowers and override all cities, nations, rich men, kings and poets.

A new report produced by the digital marketing firm Aira for industrial components distributor RS Components tries to visualize that wealth, comparing $ 100 billion to the gross domestic product of the world's richest nations.

The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

«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.»

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 benefitted from the same «flight to safety» capital flows that have benefitted (and inflated bubbles in) other Nordic countries.

In a statement, Pope Francis said: «At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far - sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

One of the richest men in the nation, but hardly a soft - hearted liberal, Ford doubled his employees» wages in 1914, paying them enough to actually afford the cars they were making.

America before 1930 was a society in which a small number of very rich people controlled a large share of the nation's wealth.

According to data provided to me by Rich Houseal of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, Massachusetts is the most Catholic state in the nation.

The more closely nations follow the ideals of economism, the greater the gap becomes between the rich and the poor.

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

Efforts to promote such changes in the guise of human rights are correctly condemned as egregious instances of «cultural imperialism» by which elites of certain rich nations, not least of the United States, attempt to impose their values on the rest of the world.

In 1970 the U. N. suggested that 7 % of 1 % of the total GNP of rich nations should be made available for the development assistance.

For example, he declares that St. Thomas's assertion that the poor man was justified in stealing must now be more widely applied to classes and nations: «The proletarian nations have a claim on the goods of the rich nation next door.»