Sentences with phrase «rich nations up»

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.

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

Fed by this belief, Canada's home ownership rate rose to eclipse most other rich nations», up almost 10 % since 2000.

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.

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.

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.

The gap between the rich and the poor nations is growing, and this inequality is already building up explosive tensions.

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.

«Once to Every Man and Nation,» «0 Brother Man,» «How Shall a Rich man...,» «Rise Up, 0 Men of God,» and on and on and on.

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.

The G8 is made up the richest 8 nations in the world, representing about half the world's wealth in both GDP and PPP.

At their recent annual summit in Ireland the Group of 8 rich nations — including the United States — formally agreed that opening up government data is good policy.

Another criticism of the WTO is that the organisation itself lacks the power to stand up to the rich nations.

Taxing the rich in the hope of freeing up the economic resources of the workers and the middle - classes — so they can afford to inject money back into the economy, the thinking goes — makes sense as a One Nation philosophy.

Whilst Japan, Russia and Canada all advocate a new wider agreement, poorer nations point to the fact richer nations have been emitting greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution and want Kyoto extended before they sign up.

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.

The rich nations have screwed up the climate.

Kyoto was a legally binding agreement that imposed and split up among rich nations a 5.2 percent global emissions cut from 1990 levels.

With dwindling yields, these richer nations buy up land in other places to secure their own food supply, she said.

In every nation, rich and poor, in which a choice of contraceptives is available and is backed up by reasonably accessible safe abortion for when contraception fails, women have two or fewer children.

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 CDM - the U.N.'s main carbon market set up by the Kyoto Protocol - has helped to channel almost $ 400 billion to carbon - cutting projects in the developing world by allowing investors to earn credits they can sell for use in meeting emission targets in richer nations.

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.

December 30, 2010 • Go to France, Britain, Ireland or Portugal — you'll find the same sentiment on the streets of all these debt - ridden European nations: Europe's financial crisis was caused by rich and greedy bankers and politicians, yet it's the poor who're picking up the tab — people like Mariana Silva.

The nation's richest philanthropists are lining up behind him.

The nation's richest philanthropists are lining up behind it...

He also talks about his nation's rich run of form at World Travel Awards when a number of properties picked up top honours.

Over the past 12 months, they've brought a circuitous running track, Positive Pathways (+)(2016), to the European School of Management and Technology (a location for fellow collective DIS's Berlin Biennale) and to New York's Mitchell - Innes and Nash (which newly represents GCC) in a commentary on the growing pervasiveness of wellness culture among Gulf elites; they've digitally renovated an oil sheik's Paris manse, now complete with a hidden elevator for his perfunctory Lamborghini, in a video work at London's Project Native Informant, which looks critically on the racially - and culturally - charged attacks on oil - rich Gulf expats who have bought up some of the West's best addresses over recent decades; and they've launched a branding agency for an undisclosed nation from the region, the services of which it has then licensed to citizens via an app for a solo booth last year at Art Basel in Miami Beach.

On Friday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain gave a speech on climate in which he proposed that the rich nations ante up some $ 100 billion a year in such assistance by 2020.

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.

«Given the quantifiable impacts of climate change in India and other developing nations in the coming decades, both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community,» said Steven J. Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California Irvine and one of the partners in the Science Advances study.

Fault lines are opening up between developing countries led by China and India and richer nations including the U.S. in talks in Bonn over a new climate treaty.

e. Developed countries agreed to provide funding to help developing countries make the costly shift to green energy and shore up their defenses against climate change impacts like drought and storms and rich nations must report every two years on their finance levels — current and intended.

Poorer nations say they are fed up with foot - dragging by richer countries on finance and carbon - cutting commitments.

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.

The new UN deal to be negotiated by 2015, will see all nations rich and poor, sign - up to a pledge.

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.

Under the United Nations climate change agency, the Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC), rich countries pledged $ 30 billion for the period 2010 - 2012 and to ramp up long - term GCF of about $ 100 billion a year by 2020.

Schandl et al (2016) suggest that some rich nations might be able to bump this up to a maximum of 4.7 % per year in the future if they roll out a high and fast - rising carbon price, and somehow manage to double their material efficiency.

Dividing up rich and poor is no longer as simple as putting rich nations in one box and poor nations in another.

As large developing nations start to catch up with the rich economies, reducing the gap between nation states, inequality within countries is increasing.

Francois Hollande told the world's richest nations to aid the most vulnerable at a Caribbean climate summit on Saturday, as he geared up to host one of his own later this year.

Poorer nations say they are fed up with foot dragging by richer countries on finance and carbon cutting commitments.

Coal magnate John Rich admits that because of ballooning costs and lack of government support, he has given up on setting a timeline for the construction of the Gilberton Coal - to - Clean - Fuels and Power Project, the nation's first coal - to - oil plant, in Gilberton, Pennsylvania.

The targets for greenhouse gas reduction are shaping up to be encouragingly strong — not just for rich nations, but for developing ones like China as well.

Trump's tax bill just ballooned the nation's deficit by slashing taxes for corporations and the rich — now he wants cash - strapped local and state governments to make up the difference.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three - week U.S. visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil - rich nation.

With the promise of a peer - to - peer operated Internet, Ethereum stands to revolutionize third - world countries still struggling to catch up technologically with richer nations.

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