Sentences with phrase «small number of countries»

«The point is that a relatively small number of countries holds the fate of the planet in their hands in terms of climate change,» says David Hawkins, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate center.

«And yet, the perpetrators are a relatively small number of countries.»

I use inflation for the advanced countries because global inflation data are always affected by a small number of countries that from time to time have very high inflation or hyperinflation.

This whole thesis was, however, challenged by the recent phase of globalization when a small number of countries in East Asia began to display dramatic economic results by opening up and deregulating their economies and integrating them with the international capitalist system.

There is too big a concentration of wealth in a small number of countries.»

Even a small number of countries doing this within a large defensive agreement can completely destroy the agreement, for obvious reasons.

The model shows that a small number of countries have a large number of connections to other countries, offering them a steady and cheap supply of virtual water even if some connections are compromised by drought or political upheaval.

And on some issues, a small number of countries are failing to address critical problems.

All things being equal, students in countries with centralized exams scored 16 points higher in math and 11 points higher in science, although the science finding is not statistically significant due to the small number of countries in the sample (see Figure 3 for results).

I mean I looked at a small number of countries and some of the dogs I have owned mixes of they are the best dogs I have ever owned.

It would only need the agreement of a small number of countries, all of which would benefit.

A second, later schedule was agreed for a small number of countries including India, Kuwait, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.

Ideally, it would be tackled by the governments of the small number of countries with a sophisticated technology development capability acting in some kind of coordinated fashion.

The Kyoto Protocol was a product of its time, with only a small number of countries taking on binding emission reduction targets.

As French nuclear company Areva and US - based Westinghouse went through financial difficulties, there are only a small number of countries left with an ability to run reactors and produce nuclear energy.

A number of countries are heavily invested in fossil fuel electricity, and a smaller number of countries, from China to Germany, are adding coal plants at a rapid rate, and will likely be reluctant to let expensive capital investments go unused.

But for many reasons, including policy uncertainty and the relatively small number of countries that have working national - and state - level REDD + programs, there haven't been enough places to channel sustainable, long - term investments.

And the basic narrative of the climate crisis — a small number of countries benefitting from the industrial revolution, the large majority paying for it by suffering, grievously — is not the kind of history that encourages anyone to take anything at face value.

The previous restrictive reading of the BVI CPR had led to the situation that foreign judgments obtained in all but a small number of countries could not be enforced in the BVI because there was no «gateway» to provide for service out of the jurisdiction.

It is inappropriate for such guidelines to be derived from ad hoc regulations and policy experiments that have been adopted in a small number of countries, especially since the impact of these regulations is still far from clear.

Although this liberalization is restricted today to a small number of countries, I predict that its global impact will be profound and many other jurisdictions will follow suit before too long.

Facebook says that the study includes several inaccuracies and is based only on a small number of users in a small number of countries.