Sentences with phrase «use in rich countries»

Our rates of resource consumption and environmental destruction are grossly unsustainable and there is no possibility that the per capita levels of resource use in rich countries can be kept up for long or spread to all the world's people.

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In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

These clauses exist in thousands of international trade and investment deals and are used by multinational companies from rich countries to sue governments when policy decisions interfere with their investments.

Foodstocks are continuously piling up but so are the number of people without access to adequate food, those suffering from hunger and starvation, while in the meanwhile there has taken place a major decline in the quality of food available to the people, thanks to the excessive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, more so in the poorer countries as the more hazardous pesticides are banned in the rich countries and both exported to and dumped in the poor countries.

The summit will be hosting 25 Heads of State and Government, and will provide a platform for co-operation amongst solar resource - rich countries, with the purpose of realising «the common goals of increasing the use of solar energy in meeting the energy needs of ISA member countries in a safe, convenient, affordable, equitable and sustainable manner»

Activists in the rich and poor countries of the world have forged a global alliance to oppose the use of biotechnology in agriculture.

The idea is that activists in the rich countries will organise consumer boycotts of genetically engineered foods, while the farmers in the South oppose the patenting of genes for use in agriculture.

4 Global Warming Makes the Arctic Hot Property Countries from Russia to Canada are eyeing Arctic territory that are expected to thaw in the future, freeing up its methane riches, which could be used as an alternative energy source.

«On the other hand, when technologies are economically available to harvest renewable energy, Japan can become one of the energy - rich countries in the world using the large resources of wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energies available among the Japanese islands.»

Using a mathematical model of the global economy, the World Bank said in a 2006 report that if 14.2 million workers moved from poor to rich countries between 2001 and 2025, raising the rich countries» labour force by 3 per cent, the world's yearly wages would grow by $ 772 billion by 2025.

The book's author, Andy Chetley, charges that drugs which are considered unsafe in rich countries are still promoted in poor ones, while warnings about the use of drugs in pregnancy vary widely even among rich countries.

First, Ramanan Laxminarayan of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy in Washington DC and his colleagues calculate that if rich countries and China cap their use of antibiotics in farming at the global average, overall use in that sector should be 60 per cent lower in 2030.

Using a mathematical model of the world economy, the World Bank said in a 2006 report that if 14.2 million workers moved from poor to rich countries between 2001 and 2025, raising the rich countries» labour force by 3 per cent, the world's yearly wages would grow by $ 772 billion by 2025.

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Well, firstly we are still among the richest countries in the world despite the recession, so the numbers of people using UK dating services are truly vast.

It is a film brimming with rich characters, incredible performances, nuanced direction, and a pitch - perfect script, and Rees uses the backdrop of World War II America to highlight how much — and how little — our country has changed in half a century.

As more research is conducted in more regions and countries, amongst a wider array of cultures and amongst those who are and those who are not religious, using a meaningful qualitative approach combined with quantitative studies will help the field become increasingly nuanced and rich.

But perhaps the two initiatives Eisenhower is best known for are its multi-week exchange programs with sister schools in Mexico and France, and the Culture Box Program, a rich collection of artifacts from 46 countries (such as clothing, games, and musical instruments) that are available for use in the Eisenhower curriculum as well as any school in the district (or a non-school group for a $ 15 fee).

Valor aims to be among the top performing schools in the country, best known for its rich diversity, world - class development of educators, and ability to personalize education for each teacher and student through the exceptional use of data.

The main house of the Holbeck Ghyll was built in the 19th Century, and bought in 1888 by Lord Lonsdale, one of the richest men in the country, to use as his hunting lodge.

Quick progress in curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the main human - generated greenhouse gas, could be achieved by using capital from rich countries to help prevent the destruction of tropical forests (and resulting greenhouse - gas emissions), Mr. Gore said.

I'm all for efforts to cut energy use and advance non-polluting options in rich countries.

It's good old fashioned black carbon soot — a visible pollutant with measurable effects on human health both in poor places, where it comes from cooking or heating using coal, firewood or dung, and rich countries, where it is produced mainly through the combustion of diesel and similar fuels and from some industries.

Even so, efforts to use capital from rich countries to help prevent the destruction of tropical forests are increasingly in favor among key environmental leaders, including former Vice President Al Gore.

You can track core issues on Twitter using hashtags like #COP21, #climatejustice, #climatefinance (the $ 100 billion in climate and energy aid that rich countries pledged to be providing annually from 2020 through 2030).

Despite being one of the top resource - rich nations in the world, the US uses twice the amount of renewable natural resources as can be regenerated annually within the country.

Mercury emissions from coal - fired power plants can be reduced by using chemical filters, but while this is increasingly the norm in the rich world many developing countries have yet to catch up.

-- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/08/five-g7-nations-increased-their-coal-use-over-a-five-year-period-research-shows Five of the world's seven richest countries have increased their coal use in the last five years despite demanding that poor countries slash their carbon emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change, new research shows.

There is growing international awareness that more transparency in the management of oil and mining revenues is needed so that citizens of countries rich in such natural resources can have greater oversight over the revenues and ensure that this wealth is used wisely and fairly.

This was agreed upon in the convention and has been affirmed countless times, but some rich countries are using the current economic climate and economic growth in China and India as an excuse, saying that they can not afford what they owe and that times have changed.

Yes, those of us in rich countries have a lot of opportunity to reduce our energy use, but I actually think rising per capita energy use, at least in the short term, is a good thing overall because so many people live on so little energy now.

So, given how many machines and devices we use — particularly in rich, industrialized countries — could waste heat be warming the planet?

Two hundred years ago, 90 percent of us used to produce our own food and energy; today, in rich countries, less than one percent of us do.

He uses applied economic techniques combined with methods from climate science and remote sensing to understand the impacts of climate in both rich and poor countries, and has conducted fieldwork related to climate change adaptation with communities in India, Bangladesh, Kenya, and Uganda.

Richer countries don't commit real resources to mitigation in poorer countries partly because they are not confident that their resources would be well used; poorer countries don't anticipate resources so don't implement ambitious effective policies.

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One might think that in an era of dependence on foreign sources of gasoline, and the wars being fought in oil - rich countries like Iraq or Libya, that it might be in everyone's interest to use a little bit less of the stuff.

If we keep burning carbon in this way, the rich countries will use far more than their fair share, leading to catastrophic climate change, and pushing the climate action effort onto other countries.

Rolltech founder and chief executive officer Rich Belsky said that the app is used in more than 40 countries and in more than 3,000 bowling centers.

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