Sentences with phrase «said wealthier nations»

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«Saudi Arabia is a very wealthy nation, and they're going to give the United States some of that wealth, hopefully, in the form of jobs, in the form of the purchase of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world,» Trump said Tuesday.

It could endanger its place in the G - 7 group of wealthy industrialized nations and its seat on the United Nations Security Council, although Salmond says Scotland would support Britain in efforts to keep the security councinations and its seat on the United Nations Security Council, although Salmond says Scotland would support Britain in efforts to keep the security counciNations Security Council, although Salmond says Scotland would support Britain in efforts to keep the security council seat.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said last week that the administration expected to make a decision on whether to remain a party to the deal by the time leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations meet in late May.

Most Canadians (64 %) say that countries like Canada have a moral responsibility to assist less wealthy nations in development, but one - in - five (21 %) say they personally donate money to overseas aid or charity projects.

«Once I received the script and became engaged related to the subject matter that is a worldwide problem related to people of color, I felt compelled and appreciative to be a part of bringing to life a film about the epidemic of skin bleaching in both impoverished and wealthy nations,» said Vicker.

As Michael Fry, the founder of independence site Wealthy Nation, said: «We must make clear to voters that they can most readily make their country better by emulating their Victorian forebears in the pursuit of profitable opportunities.»

But he says the state, which already has a temporary income tax surcharge on the wealthy, needs to address its highest in the nation property taxes right now instead of personal income taxes, also known as the PIT.

Salmond said he intended to set up an oil fund over the next five to ten years which would directly financially benefit every person in an independent Scotland, and make Scotland's GDP 115 % higher than the rest of the UK's, and the country the sixth wealthiest nation in the world.

Paul Krugman, the American professor who just won the Nobel economics prize, said: «Mr Brown and Alistair Darling have defined the character of the worldwide rescue effort, with other wealthy nations playing catch - up.»

One of the nation's wealthiest black business leaders is considering mounting a self - financed campaign to topple Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017 — saying he has lost faith in the candidate he once supported.

Poor nations say wealthy countries got rich using coal, oil and gas and they must be allowed to develop their way out of poverty.

Overseas scientists relocating to Japan will need patience, and some Japanese friends and colleagues to help them out in their transition, but shouldn't worry too much about relocating to one of the world's safest, healthiest, best educated, and wealthiest nations,» he says.

But even before all the data were in, the researchers began to suspect that their assumptions were wrong, says lead study author Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Public Health Policy at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. «The stereotype that many of us in the U.S. and Europe have of an institution is not what is being set up in less wealthy nations,» Whetten says.

Dale Jamieson, who directs the New York University Environmental Studies program and was not affiliated with the study, says Hallegatte's findings should be a wake - up call for wealthier nations with at - risk coastal areas who have not taken precautions to prepare for the results of climate change.

He said the $ 10 billion Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help poor nations address warming «should only be the beginning» of the wealthy world's commitment.

The Obama administration on Friday said legislation passed this week by Republicans on the House education panel would rob vital federal dollars from the nation's poorest schools and redirect them to wealthier schools.

«Illinois has the most inequitable education funding system in the nation, where poorer districts spend as little as $ 6,000 per student while wealthier districts spend up to $ 30,000 per student,» Ostro said in a statement.

«It is appalling that a state as wealthy and as rich as California lies at 46th in the nation,» Dunn said.

Reuters explains: «Subsidies on oil, gas or coal are meant to help the poor by lowering the price of energy but the report, issued on the sidelines of a 160 - nation U.N. climate meeting in Ghana, said they often backfired by mainly benefiting wealthier people.»

Many experts say the world's wealthy nations will probably have to compensate China and India if those countries are to move to curtail emissions.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made that clear in a morning news conference, saying the United States was prepared to join with other wealthy nations in «mobilizing» $ 100 billion a year by 2020.

Work Towards 25 - 40 % Emissions Reductions by 2020 On the subject of emission reductions targets — another area where there's a growing gap between what developing nations (and scientists) say is required and what wealthy nations seem politically willing to do — Mr De Boer said that emissions reductions in the range of 25 - 40 % by 2020 are something all nations should be working towards.

I'm of the school that says that a few % points of GPD is a trivial cost for the wealthiest nation on Earth to pay to find out whether anything we can do will prevent potential catastophes like the submersion of Southern Louisiana.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

And just 34 % of Japanese believe rich countries should do more about climate change, while 58 % say developing countries should do just as much as wealthy nations.

David Howell, SEO / BirdLife, said: «We knew it already, but COP23 has reconfirmed it: rapid transformational changes in the world economy, especially the economies of the wealthy and developing nations, must begin in the next few years, with commitments and action under way when COP24 begins.

Providing audiences with abstract but scary information requiring sacrifice has produced apathy and denial among citizens of wealthy nations, the author says.

The wealthier nations promised in 2009 to provide developing countries with US$ 30 billion by the end of 2012, and said this should be «new and additional» finance balanced between support for adaptation and mitigation activities.

Climate Change Authority chair Bernie Fraser says other wealthy nations have already pledged far deeper emissions cuts than Australia.

Furthermore, nothing is being said about the need to reduce demand and over-consumption by wealthy nations.

«Although wealthy nations like the US and the UK satisfy the basic needs of their citizens, they do so at a level of resource use that is far beyond what is globally sustainable,» said William Lamb, of the Mercator Research Institute on global commons and climate change in Berlin, and a co-author.

Developing countries also say some wealthier countries − in particular, the US − are seeking to weaken the financial negotiating position of poorer nations by questioning long - held definitions of what constitutes a developed and a developing country — «differentiation», in UN jargon.

With past evidence of said droughts and solar activity, African nations have no real basis for «global warming» reparations from wealthier countries.

RawStory: The rise of developing nations has cut poverty while the combined economies of Brazil, China and India are on a path to overtake wealthy nations, but failure to act on climate change could reverse those gains, a UN report said Thursday.

The US and Europe have long opposed any deals that would require wealthier nations to compensate poorer countries for «loss and damages» caused by global warming (say, low - lying islands that vanish under the rising seas).

«No nation, however large or small, wealthy or poor, can escape the impact of climate change,» Mr. Obama said, citing rising sea levels, increasing droughts and other potential fallout from a warming planet.

Mr. Obama also said that wealthy countries should provide «financial and technical assistance» to help poorer nations pursue low - emissions development, and to adapt to the consequences of climate change.

Poorer nations blame wealthy states for the surge in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are heating up the atmosphere, threatening crop failures and other disasters.

In short, and you've heard TreeHugger and many others say it before, but it bears repeating: There are simply not enough resources on the planet to extend what is considered a normal, even essential, level of material consumption in wealthy nations to a planet with 6 billion and growing people: Resource Use Increasing Faster Than Population Consider some stats.

Reuters reports the following: India Again Calls for 25 - 40 % Cuts From Wealthy Nations Indian negotiator Dinesh Patnaik was quoted as saying, «For any long - term goals there have to be credible mid-term goals in the range of 25 - 40 %.»

The report says that the world is ill - prepared to manage the risks from a changing climate, and that if warming proceeds along the high end of the possible range of outcomes, climate change may overwhelm even the most well - prepared and wealthy nations.

The divide between what the world's wealthy nations are willing to commit to in regards to combatting climate change and what the poorer nations (read: those who will be worst affected) say must be done seems to only be growing.

He said the high point of his efforts was the agreement by developing countries, reached at the 2007 conference in Bali, Indonesia, to join in efforts to contain global warming in return for financial and technical help from the wealthy nations.

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Some have said that Bitcoin makes much more sense in the developing world, while others claim developed nations like the United States have the sort of tech savvy and wealthy population necessary to give this new technology a boost.

In essence, the study says, we're wealthier as a nation, but there's more wealth at the top of the economic pyramid and less wealth for everyone else.

«We have started to see a recovery in key housing indicators such as median list price and inventory,» says DuBois of the nation's wealthiest neighborhoods.