Sentences with phrase «vulnerable countries do»

This video focuses on how some vulnerable countries do not have adequate information to manage climate risks.

Vulnerable countries do not have time to wait, the climate is changing fast and phasing down HFCs is something which we absolutely must do if we're going to honour the pledges of the Paris Agreement.

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.»

«Just three weeks ago at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, they called for richer countries do more to cut their own carbon emissions and increase their support to the most vulnerable and worst affected communities and countries who are least able to protect themselves from climate change.»

I heard they were doing a special event to raise money for BBC's Sports Relief which raises money to help vulnerable people in both the UK and in some of the world's poorest countries.

«Although the tough economic climate is taking its toll on us here in the UK, its impact is being particularly deeply felt by millions of vulnerable people in developing countries, who don't have a safety net to fall back on.

China does not have river treaties with other nations, making downstream countries vulnerable to water supply disruptions and other environmental damages.

Beyond the shared repugnant experiences of these Miss Ghana Beauty Queens, every reasonable person in Ghana would agree that, asking young vulnerable women to move from one office to another begging for 10,000 dollars or 10,000 GHS each month in a country where «men at the top» are extensively sexually exploitative clearly suggests one thing — which is, money has always been placed ahead of the interest of these young girls by those requiring them to do so.

I am very proud of the record of what we are doing to help some of the most vulnerable people in our country who are facing fuel poverty.»

«It does absolutely send a terrible message to transgendered young people, one of the most vulnerable populations in the country,» Hodgson said.

Pilot study focusing on a region vulnerable to climate change Although the study highlights that long term changes in rainfall intensity are not always» man - made,» it does not necessarily mean that today's weather anomalies across the Indian Ocean rim countries and, in particular, their frequency, are not subject to human influence.

To save innocent and vulnerable people by any means is not called a «war» between two or more countries its called a genuine and good cause to be there.Americans did not loose a war, they did not surrender, they showed and left an example for other countries to reach for those in need, any day, any time any where in any circumstances, despite having any faith.

To save innocent and vulnerable people by any means is not called a «war» between two or more countries its called a genuine and good cause to be there.Americans did not loose a war, they did not surrender, they showed and left an example for other countries to reach for those in need, any day, anytime any where in any circumstances, despite having any faith.That's a cause.Areason to live.

A great mimic, Spacey is spot on as our 37th President, vulnerable to the country he feels doesn't admire him as much as they do handsome people, like John Kennedy.

That's a big, counterintuitive claim: that for all these countries» social spending, they don't actually do a better job of taking care of their most vulnerable citizens than we do.

«This consent decree is the first in the country to recognize what everyone already knew - laying off teachers at already vulnerable schools can and does deny kids their right to educational opportunity.

While the United States has been fiddling with the implementation of poorly designed accountability systems constructed in anger at our teachers, a large and swiftly growing number of other countries have succeeded in redesigning their education systems to greatly improve student achievement, provide much more equity for vulnerable students and do all this at much lower cost.

BEIJING — The top American energy and commerce officials called for China to do more to address global warming in speeches here on Wednesday, contending that the country was particularly vulnerable to a changing climate.

Here is a video diary from the event kept by Robin Gwynn, who is Britain's climate envoy for vulnerable countries (I don't think the United States has one of those, but I will check):

This does not mean, however, that long - term warming of 1.5 C is locked in, or that achievement of the 1.5 C warming limit, as called for by the vulnerable countries, is no longer possible.

Global reinsurance companies are making billions in profits, in part by selling new kinds of protection schemes to developing countries that have done almost nothing to create the climate crisis, but whose infrastructure is intensely vulnerable to its impacts.8

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.

«Millions of people,» it read, «in small islands, least - developed countries, landlocked countries as well as vulnerable communities in Brazil, India and China, and all around the world — are suffering from the effects of a problem to which they did not contribute....

The damage being done to 3rd World countries lies in food costs not insignificantly contributed to by green / UN policies of burning of food grain for fuel, by withholding funds (World Bank, EU, etc.) for building of cheap fossil fueled power to these countries, and other ways denying this vulnerable sector the potential to industrialize.

They did this in the teeth of emotional pleas from vulnerable countries and numerous rounds of diplomatic efforts to reach a compromise.

«The world also needs to know that working together our vulnerable countries are doing everything in our power to bring the climate crisis under control, and we won't relent until we've succeeded in our ambition.»

This will require urgent and *** unprecedented levels of support — the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report indicates that the global cost of adaptation could be as much as *** $ 200 or $ 300 billion per year by 2050 — but it is right that the rich countries responsible for the problem help to protect the culture, heritage and identity of the most vulnerable communities and countries... Q: What should EU governments be doing about it?

COP10 was to focus on «adaptation,» and by so doing feature the interests of the poorer and more vulnerable countries over the rich world's obsession with low - cost mitigation.

- Without compensation for irreparable damage, the most vulnerable countries will be left to pick up the pieces and foot the bill for a crisis they didn't create.

• Assure that those responsible for climate change provide adequate, predictable adaptation funding to enable developing countries and in particular the most vulnerable developing countries to do what is necessary to avoid climate change damages in cases where it is possible to take action and to prevent damages, or be compensated for climate change damages in cases where it is impossible to take protective action.

(Anderson and Bows, 2010) That is, although it is still possible that nations in the next few years will revise upward their ghg emissions reductions commitments to levels that will protect the most vulnerable people and countries, the most recent science has concluded that the world is running out of time to do this.

While the industrialized countries that have ratified the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change are required to provide assistance to vulnerable developing countries to help them to adapt to adverse climate impacts, very little has been done to date.

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.

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.

However, many vulnerable groups, particularly in rural and urban areas in low and middle - income countries, do not have the resources to be able to migrate to avoid the impacts of floods, storms and droughts.

This must be done in a way that respects the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities between developed and developing countries, and yet provides the international community — and in particular those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — assurances that pledges will tighten into targets, and that countries» performance will be assessed against those targets.

After doing some research, I discovered that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is considered to be one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, yet it is one of the countries least prepared for the impacts and with the least amount of resources.

In some of the country's most vulnerable neighbourhoods, more than 50 per cent of students do not graduate high school, taking a dramatic toll on our communities, our health and justice systems, and our economy.