Sentences with phrase «to help developing nations»

The agreement also creates a «green fund» which will help developing nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change.

We will do our part, and we will help developing nations do theirs.

It also calls for 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 and financing to help developing nations adapt to the hazards of a changing climate: persistent drought, extreme heat, dangerous storms, and rising seas.

The other part of the Paris agreement is a vague provision that starting in 2020 a $ 100 billion - a-year fund will be established to help developing nations address climate change.

The three - time presidential candidate recently explained that his choice of Dr Bawumia, since 2008, was based on the fact that «with Christianity and Islam being the two dominant religions in Ghana, unity amongst these two religions will help boost the country's development», adding: «The Muslim I chose is not just a Muslim, but a very brilliant Muslim who can help develop the nation with his in - depth knowledge.»

Suresh said the discussions should not only help long - established funders to fine - tune their practices, but also help developing nations by providing model practices and policies.

«We need to establish the tools and financing to help developing nations embrace clean energy, adapt to climate change and ensure that there's not a false choice between economic development and the best practices that can save our planet» (ClimateWire, Sept. 28).

And while the non-deal deal mentions the developed nations» offer to spend $ 100 billion a year starting in 2020 to help developing nations fight climate change, and commits $ 30 billion for short - term funding for programs like the REDD deforestation prevention plan, it fails to provide any details about how these programs would be funded or administered.

Speaking on what he described as an «ethical foreign policy» he said: «A Labour government will never undermine the duty we have to help developing nations build their economies, root out corruption and tax evasion, and lift people out of poverty.

Her thirst for knowledge that could help developing nations prompted her to get an environmental sciences degree from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

The expected 15,000 delegates will try to firm up rich nations» pledges to help developing nations cope with the effects of climate change.

I'll keep this short: whatever attempts and successes developed countries assist in providing to poorer countries, as far as standards of living, I hope, I hope, I hope, that with those improvements we also help these developing nations retain their cultural heritage, celebrate it and NOT AD WALMARTS, STARBUCKS, OPRAH»S FAVORITE THINGS and inevitably more and more and more damn stuff.

By developing and disseminating clean technology and sharing our know - how, we can help developing nations leap - frog dirty energy technologies and reduce dangerous emissions.

Last year during the talks in Cancun, leaders developed a time frame during which they agreed that they will launch new institutions, technology and funding that is designed to help developing nations handle the challenges of climate change.

Trump said the United States would stop payments to the U.N. Green Climate Fund, in which rich countries committed billions of dollars to help developing nations deal with floods, droughts and other impacts from climate change.

Governments will meet Wednesday in Stockholm to decide how to replenish the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a fund that helps developing nations meet international environmental agreements.

He announced a new executive order that will require U.S. agencies to factor climate resilience into its development work, and thereby help developing nations.

Helping developing nations reduce demand for oil?

As the premier channel of funds to help developing nations confront, mitigate and adapt to climate change, the GCF — most especially the financial commitments made to it by developed countries — serves as a bellwether for real political and economic will to address climate change.

There will be dialogue on long term financing which was set 10 Billion USD per year for 2010 - 2013 at Copenhagen to help developing nations on re-forestation, clean technology and adaptation actions for climate change, which will come to an end in 2012 and there are no aspirational goals set yet given that it was set further 100 Billion USD annually in years to come till 2020.

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN climate secretariat, said the Poznan talks were edging towards an agreement on how rich countries could pay to help developing nations adapt to the effects of climate change.

On the other hand, it also calls for $ 100 billion from industrialized countries to help developing nations address climate change, which could be a hard sell in lean economic times.

With his leadership, and the leadership of every world leader, we need to establish the tools and financing to help developing nations embrace clean energy, adapt to climate change, and ensure that there's not a false choice between economic development and the best practices that can save our planet.

Denmark still did not know how much each industrialized country would contribute of about $ 30 billion to help developing nations fight climate change from 2010 - 2012, as agreed in the final «Copenhagen Accord,» she added.

Photo 03: One of the distinct ways in which Canada can help developing nations is to provide the expertise and experience of Canadians in justice, in federalism, in pluralistic democracy.

Personally, I find the comments from the IMF amusing because they are an institution in search of a mission; the IMF was designed to help developing nations, not developed ones.

(International climate finance is the provision of funds by developed countries to help developing nations adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and embark on environmentally - sound development pathways.)