Sentences with phrase «vulnerable countries continue»

Should poor and vulnerable countries continue to hold the right to file for damages against permanent loss caused to them because of climate change

As our climate continues to change as a result of our irresponsible actions vulnerable countries continue to suffer from the impacts.

Not exact matches

«We also want to see the UK committing to further leadership at the global level to ensure stronger global coordination and action to ensure that the poorest, most vulnerable, countries do not continue to be hit the hardest by tax avoidance.»

IRRI Director General Dr. Matthew Morell said that the institute will continue to work with the Bangladesh government to ensure collaborative and responsive programs for the rice sector are in place to meet the current and future needs of the country's rice industry, particularly for the vulnerable farmers and consumers.

Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).

Eighty rural hospitals have been shuttered nationwide since 2010, and about a third of the country's remaining rural facilities are vulnerable to closure as they continue to operate under tight margins, according to findings from the latest annual Rural Relevance Study.

However, the authors said that donor countries should ensure that vulnerable populations in middle - income countries, such as ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination, refugees and people who inject drugs, continue to get support, since it may be difficult for many countries to withstand the political pressures against helping stigmatized groups.

However, high rates of multidrug - resistant (MDR) TB and TB affecting vulnerable populations, such as the homeless, drug and alcohol abusers and migrants from countries with high numbers of cases TB continue to challenge TB elimination.

A huge swath of civil rights groups had been working intensely for months, pushing lawmakers to write a bill that would continue to hold states and school districts accountable for how they serve the country's most vulnerable kids.

And many adaptation projects like building sea walls are essential to the continued existence of climate vulnerable countries, but don't necessarily turn a profit.

It should also continue to stand in solidarity with the most vulnerable countries and peoples, ensuring concrete steps for finance for adaptation and loss and damage are taken, and that concrete climate measures do not undermine their livelihoods and rights.

After running two days over its anticipated schedule, the 20th UN Conference of the Parties on climate change (COP 20) concluded yesterday with an agreement that reiterates some of last year's commitments towards more vulnerable countries, such as the «loss - and - damage mechanism» — but many believe a far bolder approach to climate change response is urgently [continue reading...]

Yet questions of distributive justice about which nations should bear the major responsibility for most GHG reductions at the international level have and continue to block agreement in international climate negotiations, as well as questions about which countries should be financially responsible for adaptation costs and damages in poor countries that are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest climate impacts and who have done little to cause the problem.

A group of 32 vulnerable countries, which created the Climate Change Vulnerable Forum, including Bhutan is set to meet in Dhaka, two weeks ahead of UN climate talks (the 17th Conference of Parties) in Durban, [continue rvulnerable countries, which created the Climate Change Vulnerable Forum, including Bhutan is set to meet in Dhaka, two weeks ahead of UN climate talks (the 17th Conference of Parties) in Durban, [continue rVulnerable Forum, including Bhutan is set to meet in Dhaka, two weeks ahead of UN climate talks (the 17th Conference of Parties) in Durban, [continue reading...]

As we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

These organisations often rely on the pro bono support of lawyers but they also need funds in order to survive and continue making a real and recognisable difference to the lives of many of the most vulnerable people around the country.