Sentences with phrase «steps by poorer countries»
China will be «flexible» in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday.
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Rwanda, one of Africa's poorest countries, has cut newborn deaths by 30 %, and any country could take the same simple steps that have proven so effective.
A central point is a defense of the primacy of the Copenhagen Accord, the short summary of commitments, both in emissions goals and financial steps, negotiated by a core group of rich and poor countries in December.
And they still remained locked in that Alphonse - Gaston carbon dioxide duet, with Congress demanding concrete, verifiable steps by China even as China insists that rich countries step first, and help pay for changes in poorer ones.