Sentences with phrase «wealthy countries effectively»

Although risks are distributed across all levels of economic development, wealthy countries effectively limit their present - day threat by gross domestic product — enabled infrastructure and coastal defense investments.

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Asad Rehman head of climate and energy at Friends of the Earth had this to say «A weak and dangerously ineffectual agreement is nothing but a polluters charter — it legitimises a do - nothing approach whilst creating a mirage that governments are acting in the interests of the planet and its people,» «Doha was a disaster zone where poor developing countries were forced to capitulate to the interests of wealthy countries, effectively condemning their own citizens to the climate crisis.