Sentences with phrase «wealthy countries pay»

Funding mechanisms, by which wealthy countries pay developing countries to maintain their forest cover, such as REDD + (short for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries), could also give donors the «soft power» to push for improved governance of industrial agriculture, he said.

Most such pledges don't go beyond 2030, and those from developing countries are mostly «conditional» — they'll proceed if wealthy countries pay the cost or otherwise help.

Not exact matches

So while citizens of other countries who arrive here looking to build a life in this province will get stuck paying extra, the savvy and wealthy investors who are driving this out - of - control market will easily find a way around it.

The wealthiest residents in one of the country's richest boroughs will be asked to pay a voluntary «tax» to help the young, homeless and lonely.

UNFPA's latest update to its report on member - state contributions shows that eight wealthy European countries, along with Canada and Japan, pay 86 percent of the $ 389 million bill to fund that agency, which aggressively promotes population control.

The wealthiest residents in one of the country's richest boroughs will be asked to pay a voluntary «tax»... More

In any event, this brings me neatly to a subject that has long confused me, which is the continued presence in this country of a large group of people who pay very little tax despite being, in many cases, staggeringly wealthy.

The leaked YouTube video shows Romney speaking to a group of wealthy donors suggesting that nearly half the country doesn't pay federal income taxes and relies on government assistance.

«The primaries were all about that and the platform resulted from these primaries and then the discussion of the powerful ideas, raising taxes on the wealthy, increasing wages and benefits, things like paid family leave, paid sick leave, things that really would have resonated with so many people hurting in this country,» de Blasio told NY1's Errol Louis in his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» segment.

As a prominent Tory backbencher dismissed Clegg's plan that the rich should face a time - limited tax to avoid a breakdown in social cohesion as a pre-party conference «easy clap line», Osborne said the wealthy already paid more tax and the country should be wary of driving away wealth creators.

«I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax.

One possibility, Rodrigues suggests, could be to create a provision in the next international climate - change treaty requiring wealthy countries with high carbon emissions to pay Brazilians for the environmental benefits of keeping their forests standing.

In my opinion wealthy developed countries such as US, Europe, Japan etc should pay a subsidy to poor countries with rainforests on the understanding that forests such as Amazon, Congo, Borneo are then not cut down.

In wealthy countries, education is associated with prosperity and high - paying jobs.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

He listed areas where deals might be reached, including: finding ways for wealthy countries to get emissions credits by paying for the protection of forests in poorer nations; the Clean Development Mechanism, a system for encouraging other kinds of investments that cut poor - country emissions; and systems for sharing technology.

Economic history suggests wealthy countries can pay these extra costs, and if they don't they pay in health costs and environmental degradation.

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Wealthy Countries Should Pay «Rainforest Utility Bills» for Ecosystem Services Rendered: Prince Charles

One promising plan calls for wealthy countries to pay those in the tropics to halt the destruction of their immense forests for agriculture and logging.

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New research done at Ohio State University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that if wealthy nations spent collectively $ 1 billion annually to pay landowners in tropical countries not to

New research done at Ohio State University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that if wealthy nations spent collectively $ 1 billion annually to pay landowners in tropical countries not to cut down forests half a billion tonnes of carbon emissions could be avoided annually and deforestation reduced by one - tenth.

India, China and other developing nations have demanded that the wealthy countries be obligated to act based on their long histories of emitting and their capability to pay, and our short horizon polluter pays principle and use of national income as an indictor of capability address their concern.

The event exposed the tension that exists between incentives of developing countries to generate much - needed revenues from cutting down their rainforests, and those of wealthier countries to pay for rainforest protection.

The plan calls for wealthy countries to pay developing countries to preserve their rainforests arguing that these ecosystems store massive amounts of carbon dioxide as well as providing important ecological services and serving as a repository for most of the planet's biodiversity.

You have asked the first group to pay $ 3,000 each to fund the new licensing program; you have asked the second group, some of the wealthiest professionals in the country, to pay $ 15 each.

Also on the basis of Simpson's models, the effect upon competition from private legal services providers (without distinguishing between informal or formal providers) is as follows: In either type of country (wealthy or poor), wealthy social groups are willing to pay hefty premiums for access to private legal institutions, whereas poor or disadvantaged groups will prefer private legal systems only if they are cheaper to access than the state's.

In one, a wealthy bachelor nicknamed «Mr. Big» paid more than half a million dollars for a squad of «love hunters» to scour the country looking for his vision of the ideal wife: a milky - skinned virgin eighteen years his junior.