Sentences with phrase «vulnerable nations»

Building resilience to adapt to climate change — particularly amongst the poorest and most vulnerable nations in the world — is absolutely crucial.

Building more resilient communities in the most vulnerable nations by high - level financial commitments and development assistance can help protect peoples in climate hotspots and zones of potential instability and conflict.

They made additional pledges about transparency, governance and the need to help the most vulnerable nations first.

Some of the most vulnerable nations are our neighbours and we are helping them to build resilience.

We look to President Obama to speak not only of the urgent need for greenhouse gas mitigation, but also of the measures that must be taken domestically and internationally to prepare for the impacts of climate disruption — including how the US intends to aid the most vulnerable nations in adaptation.

In 1999 Anson advised readers that: «Y2K's impact on the delivery of food, seed, and fertilizer could result in between 10 million and 300 million deaths» in more vulnerable nations.

Opening the Forum on Monday, Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed said, «We gather in this hall today, as some of the most climate vulnerable nations on Earth.

One way or another, leaders from the world's poorest and most vulnerable nations said, countries will have to find a way to bridge the gigaton gap.

The advances in clean tech promise to slow down global warming, but the climate vulnerable nations need more support to survive

These groups, which include vulnerable nations such as Bangladesh and Vanuatu, only need provide information on their plans to develop in a low - carbon fashion.

The US offered cash to persuade climate - vulnerable nations like the Maldives to sign up to its favoured Copenhagen accord, a ploy that Pablo Solón, head of this year's Bolivian delegation, describes as «blackmail».

The story of the 2010 flooding in Pakistan is a warning to other vulnerable nations that experts believe will bear the brunt of the gradual shifts in climate and weather patterns expected over the coming decades.

Earth's most vulnerable nations remind the developed world that climate action is a question of life or death.

How vulnerable a nation is to climate change will severely influence its international credit score, the Standard & Poor's (S&P) Rating Service reports.

Have they articulated any position on climate justice issues that arise in setting ghg emissions policy or in regard to the adaptation needs of vulnerable nations or people?

On the climate change adaptation side, the Bank is stepping up efforts to integrate disaster risk management work with longer - term efforts to make vulnerable nations more resilient to climate and disaster risks.

About the Global Climate Action Agenda France and Morocco's global climate champions have set out their detailed agenda to boost coop - erative action between governments, cities, business, investors and citizens to cut emissions rapidly and help vulnerable nations adapt to climate impacts and build their own clean energy, sustainable futures.

I had a bad 18 hours or so, was too angry to sleep one night, when it became clear that Fiji's COP, the first ever to be chaired by a Pacific island state, would send the world's most vulnerable nations home empty - handed on the life - and - death issue of loss and damage.

I accuse Canadian corporations and government of immoral activity with devastating consequences for the poorest, most vulnerable nations on the globe.

But big polluters and wealthy nations refuse to be held liable for compensating climate - vulnerable nations for future impacts of climate change.

That could happen within several decades at the current rate, though some climate activists and vulnerable nations say the world has already passed the danger point of 350 parts per million and must somehow undo it.

He pleaded for continuing the Tanaloa Dialogue (Fijian for «open conversation») which includes vulnerable nations and the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters like China and India.

But as long as the rich nations — and their big polluters — dictate the terms of the Paris accord, maintain unhealthy fossil fuel subsidies and refuse to establish a long - term market for renewable energy that includes putting a price on carbon emissions, a world that protects more vulnerable nations, humans, animals and plants from the impacts of climate change will remain a dream.

President Obama should speak not only of the urgent need for greenhouse gas mitigation, but also of the measures that must be taken domestically and internationally to prepare for the impacts of climate disruption — including how the US intends to aid the most vulnerable nations in adaptation.

«I invite some of the most vulnerable nations in the world to join a global survival pact instead,» Nasheed said.

But islands say they're still looking to Fiji's «Islands Conference of the Parties» to provide a turning point on assistance to vulnerable nations.

Many of them have long advocated a maximum temperature rise of 1.5 °C to prevent disaster for the most vulnerable nations, such as the Marshall Islands and the Maldives.

Filmed over two years, Haitian - born Raoul Peck's powerful exposé examines the staggering failures, global and local, that have stranded a vulnerable nation in the aftermath of Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake.

Though Russia is ranked 115 out of 163 nations surveyed and classified as a medium - risk country, the recent heatwave's impact on grain production and the nation's ban on grain exports, combined with a 25 % decrease in Canadian grain production in June, due to flooding, is causing fluctuations in commodity prices, in turn increasing food insecurity in the most vulnerable nations.

As climate change tightens its grip on the world, institutions charged with protecting the most vulnerable nations could be faced with just such a question.

Keith, claiming that geoengineering is inexpensive, argued that this technology would diffuse power and is most likely to be deployed by the most climate - vulnerable nations.

Now going into 2015, countries need to focus on creating an agreement that facilitates domestic climate action, fosters accountability and increasing ambition, and supports adaptation in the poorest, most vulnerable nations.

So, these vulnerable nations are urging all Parties to the UNFCCC to «consider and address the health, human rights and security implications of climate change, including the need to prepare communities for relocation, to protect persons displaced across borders due to climate change - related impacts, and the need to create a legal framework to protect the human rights of those left stateless as a result of climate change.»

In their final declaration, to be presented at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, COP15, which opens December 7, the vulnerable nations state that they are ready «to show moral leadership on climate change through actions as well as words, by acting now to commence greening our economies as our contribution towards achieving carbon neutrality...»

The most vulnerable nations in the assessment undertaken by Brooks et al. (2005)(using mortality from climate - related disasters as an indication of climate outcomes) were those situated in sub-Saharan Africa and those that have recently experienced conflict.

Adaptation finance should also be channelled through the LDC Fund, which is set up to better serve the world's poorest and most vulnerable nations.

In partnership with Norway, the Bank is scaling up climate - smart agriculture in Ethiopia, a project that has already rehabilitated more than 190,000 hectares of degraded communal and individual farmland in this vulnerable nation since 2008.