Sentences with phrase «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.

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

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.

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.»

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 nWorld's Greatest Leaders — is in a tight race to become the leader of the world's fourth - largest nworld's fourth - largest nation

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.

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.

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 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 World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

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.

And our economic arrangements are having terrible impacts on many of the world's rich nations.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United StWorld War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United Stworld, the United States.

And if fuel shortages are a bother for us, they are devastating to the poor countries; the energy crisis is widening the gap between the rich and the poor nations of this world at a terrifying pace.

Even among the affluent nations of the western world, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting the poorer.

Eyeing but one party and leaving alone all those rich elders and their sons of high society going to third world nations / countries seeking acts of sensualistic desires with enslaved «children» seems to have slipped thru your reason abilities...

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

They were uttered after a review of the growing economic gap between rich and poor nations and of the escalation of military defensiveness in the world.

How is this even happening here, one of the richest nations in the world?

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

By the way, my take on this question is that God allows a lot of suffering, not only in the 3rd world, but also in the richest nations.

Btw, my take on this question is that God allows a lot of suffering, not only in the 3rd world, but also in the richest nations.

We are the richest nation in the world and we can't take care of our own people who are less fortunate.

The obvious practical meaning of all this is that the fundamental problems we face today — nuclear war, population growth, pollution, the intolerable gap between the rich nations and the poor ones, the intelligent use of scarce world resources — are global in scope.

Pushed incessantly by figures like the World Bank's McNamara, the idea that nations could become rich only if they moved to control their population rates became an article of faith among Western and Western - educated intellectuals in Asia — a faith backed up by aid dollars linked to the willingness of recipient countries to develop control measures.

Since nutrient - rich quinoa is also drought resistant, and grows well on poor soils without irrigation or fertilizer, it's been designated a «super crop» by the United Nations, for its potential to feed the hungry poor of the world.

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Some environmental groups have called on rich nations to assess how much carbon the world can continue to emit while still having a shot of keeping temperatures below 2 C above preindustrial levels, and then make the case for using up whatever it cites as a «fair share» of those gigatons.

Rich nations are taking an increasing interest in electrifying the rest of the world.

Yet, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and leaders of the world's eight richest nations, including President Bush, among others, have called the development of clean coal technology essential to preventing the consequences of climate change.

IT IS one of the planet's last true wildernesses, yet a handful of the world's wealthiest nations are plundering its riches to satisfy the appetites of luxury consumers — all with the help of billions in public money.

But it's also a sign of how much of the developing world is willfully making itself more vulnerable to climate change, even as poor nations ask rich ones to spend hundreds of billions per year on helping them to adapt.

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.

THE latest show of togetherness from the world's seven richest nations focused attention on «the information society».

How could the massed experts of an advanced nation like Canada allow one of the world's richest fisheries to go to the wall

Can one of the world's richest industries breathe new life into the economy of one of the world's poorest nations?

The models predict that the number of people will be smaller in a richer world, as a larger number of developed nations result in lower birth rates.

Carbon capture and storage has been identified by experts ranging from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the leaders of the world's eight richest nations (G8) as crucial to the fight against climate change.

But they also make this tiny nation one of the richest per capita in the world, and its leaders have signaled no plans to restrict the country's economic engine.

Infection rates are highest in the developing world but have gone down in richer nations during the 20th century because of increased hygiene and antibiotic use.

The nation's feed - in tariffs guarantee 25 years of up to triple the market price for solar energy, making it the world's hottest solar market, trailing only subsidy - richer Germany as well as the U.S. with its historical lead in developing solar technology.

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.

THE Paris climate agreement, sealed last December, was a first in many respects: the first truly international climate change deal, with promises from both rich and poor nations to cut emissions; the first global signal that the age of fossil fuels must end; the first time world leaders said we should aim for less than 2 °C of warming.

And as if to reflect in flesh and blood the nation's rags - to - riches rise, the Japanese have grown an average of 3 to 4 inches since the Second World War.

«With inspiration sought from the world of football, the collection pays homage to the rich football culture of eight chosen nations from across the globe.»

The film, centering on T'Challa, king and defender of the world's richest and most technologically advanced nation, Wakanda, is adorned in a matte - black vibranium suite which matches up perfectly with the technologically advanced materials at use in Clarks Originals» matte - black iteration of the Trigenic Evo.

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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.

The first international survey of adult literacy shows that Americans» reading skills — as poor as they may be — are on par with those of citizens of some of the world's other richest nations.

The Pisa report argued that the image of a world divided into rich and well - educated nations and poor and badly - educated countries was «out of date».