Sentences with phrase «vulnerable countries when»

The researchers had U.S. - based participants watch a video about climate change occurring in the Republic of the Maldives, a chain of 26 low - lying atolls in the Indian Ocean and one of the world's most vulnerable countries when it comes to climate change.

Not exact matches

When assigning hurricane relief funds to communities across the country, the oversight board's austerity policies may also privilege wealthier at the expense of the most vulnerable, argues Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, also at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, who published an op - ed in the Huffington Post.

Fatherhood Institute chief executive Rob Williams stressed the importance of investing at families at a time when many mothers and fathers face economic hardship: «If we are to become the most family friendly country in Europe as the Coalition wishes, we must support families — especially the most vulnerable ones — through these tough economic times.

Father Campbell made the remark on Tuesday when he visited the NHIA boss to commend the Authority for its interest in enrolling the needy and vulnerable populations of the country onto the Scheme, and to enlist the support of the NHIA in other humanitarian causes.

Conservatives hope Ms. Gillibrand's status as an incumbent will make her vulnerable at a time when populist anger has seized much of the country.

When it comes to housing for the most vulnerable people in the country that can have severe reprecussions, from homelessness to forced prostitution.

The Coalition seized on the disclosures as evidence that Mr Brown's «reckless» decisions over public spending left the country in a vulnerable position when the economic downturn hit Britain.

Happily though, it will be increasingly difficult for those in power to maintain that prohibition protects the vulnerable, when other countries are moving to legally regulate to protect their citizens.

In 2015, when they face challenges across the country and all of their 57 seats will seem very vulnerable, will they have the warchest to pay for a hard - fought campaign?

Although evidence is only anecdotal, some postdocs feel that foreign trainees are particularly vulnerable as targets due to the social isolation that occurs when someone is new to a country and just learning its language and culture.

But when you look at text sections on the most important issues — mitigation of greenhouse - gas emissions, financial aid for vulnerable countries and any mention of aspects of the deal that might be legally binding — you encounter not only brackets but, surreally, -LSB-[brackets] within brackets].

Who's going to judge which countries deserve adaptation money when many of the world's vulnerable places already experience climate extremes as the norm, and where anticipated impacts from the greenhouse buildup are not readily distinguishable from what's already happening?

China knows that the most vulnerable countries, such as the small island countries, should get priority for international funding, but China has not counted itself out of contention for funds in the long run, when $ 10 billion per year in aid grows to $ 100 billion per year.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

A central issue of concern in these negotiations is the need of nations to take equity and justice seriously when they make ghg emissions reductions commitments and when considering their responsibility for adaptation, losses and damages in poor vulnerable countries.

And note, particularly when interpreting the bitterness with which vulnerable countries and their allies rejected 2C in Copenhagen (the word «genocide» was used on more than one occasion), that it was exactly this politically expedient interpretation of 2C that they were fixed on casting aside.

Interactions between climate change and urbanisation: most notably in developing countries, where urbanisation is often focused in vulnerable areas (e.g., coastal), especially when mega-cities and rapidly growing mid-sized cities approach possible thresholds of sustainability (very high confidence).