Sentences with phrase «vulnerable nations on»

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

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Mohamed El - Erian, the chief economist at the investment firm Pimco, said he believed lawmakers would reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avert a default on the country's debt, but that the nation's rating would remain vulnerable.

The four - term Missouri Democrat continued his Twitter diatribe against the deal to raise the amount of money the nation can borrow and make a down payment on the federal deficit saying, «This debt deal is antithetical to everything the great religions of the world teach, which is take care of the poor, aged, vulnerable.»

And there are modern instances of nations enjoying the legitimacy provided them in a relationship with a single denomination, but they, being dependent on a church, are vulnerable to an inhibiting particularism.107 The strategy advocated by Rousseau, in other words, has not been commonly adopted.

This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognised also in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration inevery case.»

Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»

Early childhood home visitation has a promising future that builds on its successful history serving vulnerable families across our nation.

«Senator, as the #metoo movement sweeps the nation, calling out those who failed to protect the vulnerable, you do not want to be on the wrong side of history,» the coalition's founders, Marci Hamilton, Stephen Jimenez and Kathryn Robb wrote.

Britain will not join the UN sanctuary scheme, which seeks to resettle 30,000 vulnerable Syrians in western nations, but Mr Clegg said the government would work with the UN High Commission for Refugees on a case - by - case basis.

«Through his actions, Trump has declared open season on our nation's most vulnerable citizens.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie also weighed in on the fatal incident saying, «Gun violence continues to plague communities across the nation and that it has found its way into workplaces, schools and hospitals, where the most vulnerable among us should feel safe, is reprehensible.»

As a first step, in 2012, nations that are party to the convention will provide data on two measurable indicators: the proportion of the population in vulnerable areas living above the poverty line and the area of land covered by vegetation.

Knowledgeable observers are divided on what this torrent of short - term cash will mean for science agencies» most vulnerable charges: the nation's graduate students, postdocs, and other early - career scientists.

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.

Miami is one of the nation's most vulnerable cities to sea - level rise, and it already experiences nuisance flooding on sunny days.

But it's also a sign of how much of the developing world is willfully making itself more vulnerable to climate change, even as poor nations ask rich ones to spend hundreds of billions per year on helping them to adapt.

That leaves him vulnerable under an executive order, signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, that calls for the rigorous vetting of applicants for U.S. visas from Iran and six other predominantly Muslim nations, and bars the entry of any citizen from those nations for 90 days while procedures for that vetting are put in place.

Dependence on foreign researchers leaves the nation vulnerable to unpredictable international events that can cut off the supply.

(8) Under Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed country parties, including the United States, committed to «assist the developing country parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in meeting costs of adaptation to those adverse effects».

The effects of this graduation crisis fall disproportionately on the nation's most vulnerable youths and communities.

For instance, uncertainty about the 1994 - 1998 Rwandan refugees» future in exile is compounded by the recent resolution of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to launch military attacks on refugees based in the DRC.35 No account has been taken concerning the fact that they are survivors of the 1996 - 2000 massive forced repatriation and that they have been more vulnerable to extremely stressful and traumatic events that took place since the invasion of Rwanda on October 01, 1990.36 Although they are indeed susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, high level of fear and anxiety (psychosomatic) and / or malnutrition caused by the persecution and destruction of the war, no one who wants to empathise with them.

After little more than a year, President Donald J. Trump's policies, values, and rhetoric have had a negative impact on our nation's most vulnerable schoolchildren, particularly low - income students and students of color.

When a nation focuses all its energies on boosting the reading and math scores of the most vulnerable students, there is neither much cause nor much appetite for developing and pursuing education strategies capable of improving American schools overall.

Mandy is a strong educator who believes in a great public education for every student and has a unique perspective on meeting the needs of some of our nation's most vulnerable children.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan answered that question with a resounding yes, proposing a seemingly wonky regulatory change that could have profound effects on some of the nation's most vulnerable learners.

Weingarten says this proposal, especially on federal funding, helps restore the original intent of the law: to better support the nation's most vulnerable students.

Theirs was an era that history books tell us was instrumental to our nation's amassing its great wealth of coin and cultural treasures but that postcolonial critique consistently reveals to have been built on the backs of the world's most vulnerable and exploited citizens.

Most Republicans I know who have taken responsible positions on energy and climate fully accepts our nation's vulnerable geologic position with respect to oil.

We must also energize our efforts to put other developing nations, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, on a path to sustainable growth.

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.

Maldivian leaders have long been out front on climate, and, in the case of Nasheed, on non-polluting energy choices, mainly because the nation, with hardly any land more than eight feet above sea level, is particularly vulnerable should seas rise several feet by the end of the century.

On paper, political accord was reached after rancorous fights between rich and poor nations and emerging powers that, in the end, almost all agreed to recognize, if not yet adopt, a nonbinding plan to curb greenhouse gases, save rain forests, shield vulnerable people and share the costs.

The United States is vulnerable to enormous disasters despite being the richest and most powerful nation on earth.

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.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

Desirous of building upon the commitment of leaders at the recent United Nations High - Level Summit on Climate Change in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Position,

Through our global network of local writers, we are continuing our award - winning coverage of global and local environmental challenges, with a focus on the people for whom the ecosphere matters in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development in order to survive; poor women and children, who are the most vulnerable in natural disasters.Sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and The World Bank (WB), IPS also maintains the award - winning Tierramérica, a specialised information service on environment and development.

On Monday, he asked the Vulnerable Countries Forum to join in this effort, saying, «I think a bloc of carbon - neutral, developing nations could change the outcome of Copenhagen.

Puerto Rico is quickly becoming a poster child for a problem that spans the globe; the disproportionate impacts of climate change risks on the poor, vulnerable and especially colonial and island nations.

Small island nations, like Saint Lucia and Barbados in the Caribbean, are extremely vulnerable to a warming climate, yet many rely on an industry that's a big driver of global carbon emissions.

According to the National Renewable Energy Lab, «Like many island nations, the USVI is heavily reliant on fossil fuels for electricity generation, leaving it vulnerable to global oil price fluctuations that directly impact the cost of electricity.»

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

(8) Under Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed country parties, including the United States, committed to «assist the developing country parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in meeting costs of adaptation to those adverse effects».

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?

Climate change is a moral crisis because every time governments of wealthy nations fail to act, it sends a message that we in the global north are putting our immediate comfort and economic security ahead of the suffering and survival of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth.

In December 2009 the islands stalled talks at United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, fearing some other developing countries were not committing fully to binding deals on a reduction in carbon emission, their chief negotiator stated «Tuvalu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, and our future rests on the outcome of this meeting.»

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

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.

This question is designed to expose the ethical conclusion that nations who are put on notice by the most prestigious and responsible scientific organizations in the world that ghg emissions from their jurisdictions are causing great harm to vulnerable people around the world have an ethical duty to accept the burden of proof to prove that their ghg emissions are not causing harm.

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.