Sentences with phrase «set on developing their country»

From an early stage, the powers that be in Mexico were set on developing their country as a startup hub.

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They conclude, based on a data set covering rich developed countries from 1980 to 2005, that the revenue - maximizing corporate tax rate is about 26 percent, significantly below the US rate.

Most developed countries have set up systems of welfare that depend on population growth to sustain them.

Whether we have stopped to speak with a homeless man on the street, or are conversing with a local in a developing country, we adopt an airy sort of tone that — rather unintentionally, I'd say — sets up something of an intellectual hierarchy.

From there, the discussions developed into a planning exercise leading to proposals for changes to the country's main organic standard (set by the certification body, KRAV), to require all organic farmers to have a plan for the management of biodiversity on their farms from 200168.

Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck - Letmathé, says it is extreme to suggest people have a right to water, then gave Matt Damon an award (and a Nespresso advertising contract) for setting up a website supporting water projects in developing countries (will Matt speak out on Nestlé's water policies or keep quiet and follow George Clooney's example and say he is only «trying to make a living»?).

The impasse is only set to develop further as other European Union countries investigate the possibility of an outright ban on the use of lead shot.

The UK played a leading role in setting up the EITI but resisted joining it, on the basis that it was primarily for developing countries.

On 28 September, India plans to launch a major space - based observatory that will set a milestone for a developing country — and also mark a first for space science.

Once Jaeger and his co-authors had developed the WUP method, the research team combed through detailed data sets on 32 European countries to map out general trends and pinpoint problem areas.

«The Burden of Cancer in Developing Countries: A Global Health Council Report on the Cancer Advocacy and Learning Institute,» published in June of 2010, documents both the incidence of the disease and a set of policy solutions.

The deal sets different baselines and timelines for developed countries and for two distinct groups of developing nations, including a group of more than 100 nations led by China that has committed to move quickly toward more climate - friendly alternative coolants and a more cautious group of high - ambient - air - temperature countries that has insisted on more time.

Heavily processed and refined foods make up to 70 % of the contents of any given supermarket in a developed country, but they're not what we're set up to thrive on.

The GRC compares academic achievement in math and reading across all grades of student performance on state tests with average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered economic peers of the U.S..

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

Based on years of research studying how to improve the quality of education in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Mexico and many other countries in Latin America, as well as his work as an advisor to governments, private groups, and foundations involved in education reform, Reimers recommended developing three sets of competencies.

The district level is adjusted a second time based on the extent to which the U.S. does better or worse than students in a set of countries with developed economies, as measured by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).

Based on our experience working with educators around the country, we have developed a process that supports teachers in setting professional goals and determining a strategic area of focus.

A new study based on the Annenberg Institute on School Reform's (AISR) work with the Transatlantic School Innovation Alliance (TISA) adds to the emerging literature supporting the idea that peer networks among educational practitioners, both within and across schools, can improve teaching and learning.In England, there has been a focus over the past decade on developing formal peer networks, especially in urban settings that have traditionally underperformed relative to other areas of the country.

By focusing attention on the effectiveness of teachers in raising student achievement, these progressive states are setting the stage for U.S. schools to climb out of their doldrums and to compete with the top schools around the developed countries of the world.

It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations.

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Although emissions from developing countries now dominate, the industrial countries set the world on its global warming path with over a century's worth of CO2 emissions that have accumulated in the atmosphere.

Further divisions appeared in the fragile developing - country bloc when the US offered to take part in setting up a $ 30 billion «fast start» fund over the next three years to help developing countries adapt to global warming and grow on a more climate - friendly path.

Developed countries need to lead on setting an ambitious phase - down schedule of HFCs so as to commercialise climate - friendly alternatives, make them competitive and build confidence for developing countries to transition.

This action plan lays out concrete actions to help countries deliver on their Nationally determined contributions and sets targets for 2020 in high - impact areas, including clean energy, green transport, climate - smart agriculture, and urban resilience, as well as in mobilizing the private sector to expand climate investments in developing countries.

The US says it can join a new treaty but sets an unfair condition that is unlikely to fly — that developing countries which are major economies also take on similar emission - reduction commitments as the developed nations.

As a developing country, India is not bound to set a greenhouse gas emissions target, but Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said India has adopted what he called an «ambitious» National Action Plan on Climate Change with eight national missions covering both mitigation and adaptation.

But it was the only way to salvage the disastrous negotiation, and it did set out the few points on which the US and China — along with the other big developing countries — agreed.

Exercising its constitutional authority to advise the President on treaties, the Senate resolved that the U.S. should not sign any international agreement to set mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions that: (1) did not also set emissions limits on developing countries; and (2) that «would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States.»

«For the purposes of decreasing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, preserving tropical forests, building capacity to generate offset credits, and facilitating international action on global warming, the Administrator shall set aside the percentage specified in section 781 of the quantity of emission allowances established under section 721 (a) for each year, to be used to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries in accordance with part E.

It also explicitly proposes that the extent to which developing countries implement the agreement will depend on the support provided by developed countries, explicitly setting finance in the context of the INDCs.

(maybe most of you are too cool to remember that sort of moment... but think of something equally bad like the time you accidentally set something on fire and it started getting out of control...) I think it will be worse than that... Seems like to me we need to be much, much, more certain before we go making policy all over the earth that could actually harm us... or maybe not quite so bad, but really not desirable, harm many developing countries and distract them from addressing real environmental land use and energy production problems that would actually help the environment and save human lives now, today... but keep an eye on the future... not suggesting head in the sand stuff... just let's stop the panic... if you have to panic it's probly too late... most people don't behave terribly rationally while panicing...

Many developing countries are wondering if they can get a say in what an eventual deal looks like, since having developed countries set the rules is akin to a demolition firm being asked to restore a historic monument on a plot they're already planning to level into a parking lot.

The second place in today's fossil goes to Australia, who along with some other developed countries is impeding progress towards setting up an international mechanism on loss and damage here in Warsaw, as proposed by G77 and China.

Also last week, countries committed real money on the table, into the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which was set up to channel money from industrialized countries to vulnerable developing countries to mitigate climate change.

The Cancun agreements incorporate the finance goals set out in the Copenhagen Accord — a collective commitment by developed countries to provide $ 30 billion in fast - start finance for developing countries in 2010 - 12; and to mobilize $ 100 billion a year in public and private finance by 2020 «in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation.»

Dr Hoesung Lee, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), presenting on how science can enable the policy response to the Paris Agreement: «The largest opportunities for climate change action are in rapidly urbanizing countries, that is developing countries, where infrastructure have not yet set in.»

Some developing countries have set meaningful ghg emissions targets including Mauritius and South Africa but depend on funding from developed nations to achieve some of the climate goals.

But on the other hand, setting a temperature limit to save the polar bear may not allow for a developing country to hit its GDP target.

The KP set the benchmark on these types of commitments for developed countries.

It says: «developed countries intend to continue their existing collective mobilization goal through 2025 in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation; prior to 2025 the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement shall set a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year, taking into account the needs and priorities of developing countries».

70 companies across 20 sectors from nearly 30 countries have aligned with the Business Leadership Criteria on Carbon Pricing, a set of ambitious standards to help companies set, advocate and report on a price on carbon, developed by the UNGC together with UNEP, the UNFCCC secretariat and Caring for Climate partners — CDP, Principles for Responsible Investment, The Climate Group and UN Foundation.

The paper concludes that, in order to facilitate efficient negotiations and implementation, as well as streamlined future reporting, Parties to UNFCCC might consider, ex ante, a comprehensive set of definitions for the negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries.

At COP 21, it was also decided that developed countries intend to continue their existing collective mobilization goal through 2025 in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation, and that prior to 2025 the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties (CMA) to the Paris Agreement shall set a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year, taking into account the needs and priorities of developing countries.

Developing countries, on the other hand, have talked about an extension of the system set up under the Kyoto protocol, where only existing developed economies have emissions targets to achieve.

LISBON - The Green Climate Fund, set up to help developing countries tackle climate change, could seek to refill its coffers in 2019, a year which is likely to see «a huge amount of attention on climate finance», said the fund's executive director.

This deal had to be based on «mitigation, transparency and financing»: countries had to set targets, these had to be properly verified, and developing countries would receive funding to enable them to reach their goals.

Under the «International Science and Technology Cooperation Program on New and Renewable Energy», China will develop new patterns for international exchange and cooperation, encourage countries to complement each other with respective technological strengths and set up a platform for technological cooperation.

Meaning, that industrialized countries need to set out clear individual national targets for 2020, which is what the big developing nations are waiting on to take part in any future international agreement, and all in the context of a long - term 2050 emission reduction target.