Sentences with phrase «variegated nations»

The climate challenge is particularly tough, even «beyond super wicked,» because it is the ultimate mashup, one in which variegated nations and blocs are weighing economic prosperity, available energy menus, environmental vulnerability and — most important for many — political realities on the home front.

If a city that is the economic engine of a state can not find support for its chosen path to clearing its streets of traffic estimated to cause billions of dollars in lost productivity, that doesn't bode well for a world with astonishingly variegated nations trying to find a common path to limit climate risks without harming economies.

Not exact matches

This trip through musical Istanbul is a little prettier than it is deep, but it provides a window into the variegated subcultures of a city one musician calls «a bridge crossed by 72 nations.»

This all echoes an early post here in which I interviewed Joseph Chamie, the former head of the United Nations population office, who described an extraordinarily variegated world of imploding and exploding populations, and inevitable rivers of migration and sources of conflict.