Sentences with phrase «used in wealthier countries»

Furthermore, the mixture can then be composted and returned to the soil, a very «green» alternative to relying on toxic chemicals and expensive portable toilets that are often used in wealthier countries when municipal sewage connections are not available.

«The average per capita resource use in wealthy countries is 5 to 10 times higher than in developing countries, and the developed countries are responsible for over three quarters of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions from 1850 to 2000.»

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99 % of electricity used in Costa Rica comes from renewable sources, and the government is far ahead of many wealthier nations, having committed the country to becoming carbon neutral by 2021.

This used to be the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan city in the country, but it has been slowly fading for more than 20 years.

They support the Christian Right political groups in this country who are actually the Republican super wealthy you use the money to buy elections, create wars in the name of God.

The Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammad Sanusi II, has called on wealthy individuals in the Northern parts of the country to use the wealth Allah blessed them with, not only in building mosques but to also educate girls and discourage their early marriage.

In wealthy school districts around the country, parents and teachers talk often about keeping computer use to a minimum.

Many of the wealthiest corporations in the world are members of ALEC, which uses its vast resources to shower state politicians across the country with expensive gifts, high - priced dinners at fancy restaurants, and vacation junkets at exotic resorts.

As those of us in wealthy countries ponder which light bulb to use, some 2 billion people still lack any night - time illumination other than kerosene or the like, with a similar number cooking on firewood or dried dung.

As I wrote in our «Climate Divide» package, however, wealthy countries are already using wealth and technology to shield themselves from the hazards that attend climate extremes even as poor countries in the South are most apt to get hammered.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

The current proposition offered by climate alarmists is that if people who live in the more wealthy countries cut back their use of fossil fuels and therefore their human - caused CO2 emissions that the world can avoid the alleged catastrophic increases in temperatures based on the climate models.

«It is simply disgraceful that the wealthiest country in the world is using the developing world as its garbage dump.

Among those mechanisms: bilateral trade programs that let wealthy importing countries subsidize the production of carbon - neutral beef in poorer exporting countries, or the use of carbon offsets that people and companies to reduce their own carbon footprints by subsidizing the distribution of Mootral in developing countries.

Until recently the property had been used as a retirement home for the elderly, but was originally fashioned as a grand country residence by the son of a wealthy lawyer in the 1780s.