Sentences with phrase «wealthy nations»

We may not be the most wealthy nation in the world, or have the most powerful military.

The two - degree target is the choice of wealthy nations, for the most part, because the increased heat and sea levels won't affect them as much.

The most pessimistic view of the study is that, on average, American schools do as good a job as schools in other wealthy nations.

It outlined a weak agreement that required fewer emissions cuts from wealthy nations.

And just 34 % of Japanese believe rich countries should do more about climate change, while 58 % say developing countries should do just as much as wealthy nations.

On their current course, rapidly developing nations could consume all of the carbon budget by 2030 — even if wealthy nations were to entirely eliminate their emissions over the same period.

Among wealthy nations, income gaps in Internet and device access is shrinking, but a new type of digital divide is emerging.

Both of those solutions would only affect the poor in developing countries and would not address those in wealthy nations who choose to have enormous families.

I guess it serves a purpose if developing countries can convince more wealthy nations to transfer billions of dollars for hazard mitigation whatever the cause.

At first glance, that sounds similar to commitments made by other wealthy nations.

The solution, some have suggested, is large income transfers from wealthy nations to poor ones, an even more unlikely measure than a global tax on carbon.

On their current course, rapidly developing nations could consume all of the carbon budget by 2030 — even if wealthy nations were to entirely eliminate their emissions over the same period.

Sixteen of the twenty wealthiest nations on earth are about to set upon a population decrease the the world hasn't seen since the Black Death.

Dale Jamieson, who directs the New York University Environmental Studies program and was not affiliated with the study, says Hallegatte's findings should be a wake - up call for wealthier nations with at - risk coastal areas who have not taken precautions to prepare for the results of climate change.

«We aim to develop an approach — and technologies — that can be replicated at an affordable cost, allowing twilight - zone exploration across the globe — not just by wealthy nations with scientific research programs, but also by developing countries.»

Sweatshops arose in Asia to glue soles to our sneakers; now digital sweatshops are populated by Chinese laborers who perform the computer tasks that those of us in wealthier nations don't have time to do.

Most Canadians (64 %) say that countries like Canada have a moral responsibility to assist less wealthy nations in development, but one - in - five (21 %) say they personally donate money to overseas aid or charity projects.

I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face.

It was one of the world's wealthiest nations when it moved to protect its resources after the Second World War.

The researchers estimate that the death rate in wealthier nations such as the U.S. would be three times less than in 1918 (when more than 500,000 died from the flu in the U.S.).

The US and Europe have long opposed any deals that would require wealthier nations to compensate poorer countries for «loss and damages» caused by global warming (say, low - lying islands that vanish under the rising seas).

If the research is going to have any real global impact, it will have to look beyond the causes and measures required in wealthy nations like the US, she says.

Fast - developing countries such as China promised to limit emissions as a share of their growing economies, while wealthy nations such as the United States pledged reductions from historic levels.

99 % of electricity used in Costa Rica comes from renewable sources, and the government is far ahead of many wealthier nations, having committed the country to becoming carbon neutral by 2021.

we need to lose about 40 % — 80 % or the planet will do it for us we as the most wealthy nations need to set a good example

That's why wealthy nations have this «peacefulness», at least, for the time being.

Certain wealthy nations (ahem,...

Work Towards 25 - 40 % Emissions Reductions by 2020 On the subject of emission reductions targets — another area where there's a growing gap between what developing nations (and scientists) say is required and what wealthy nations seem politically willing to do — Mr De Boer said that emissions reductions in the range of 25 - 40 % by 2020 are something all nations should be working towards.

The last climate treaty, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, required only wealthy nations to cut emissions.

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

A common thread throughout the report is that poor nations, particularly developing countries in and near the tropics, as well as poor and vulnerable populations within wealthy nations, are likely to suffer the most severe climate change - related consequences.

But perhaps most embarrassing are Japan and South Korea, ranked 105th and 111th respectively — no other wealthy nation comes close.

A median of 62 % in the Middle East hold the view that wealthier nations bear the responsibility.

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.

Dipu Moni said wealthier nations must begin immediately delivering the billions of pounds» worth of aid they have earmarked for climate change projects.

We talked about wealthy nations like Australia poaching doctors from poorer nations and the impact it was having.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said last week that the administration expected to make a decision on whether to remain a party to the deal by the time leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations meet in late May.

The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is higher than that in most similarly wealthy nations — and it's actually been on the rise over the past two decades.

For the most part, wealthier nations top the list, with Africa, the Middle East and India scoring worst.

The fact is that the US is an unbelievably wealthy nation now.

Interesting in that Liechtenstein, Hong Kong and Switzerland are all fairly wealthy nations (relatively speaking).

The Labour peer and former newspaper proprietor Lord Hollick highlighted that British money pledged to help the poor was going to a comparatively wealthy nations such as Turkey, thanks to our funding of EU aid programmes.

As Michael Fry, the founder of independence site Wealthy Nation, said: «We must make clear to voters that they can most readily make their country better by emulating their Victorian forebears in the pursuit of profitable opportunities.»

Salmond said he intended to set up an oil fund over the next five to ten years which would directly financially benefit every person in an independent Scotland, and make Scotland's GDP 115 % higher than the rest of the UK's, and the country the sixth wealthiest nation in the world.

Paul Krugman, the American professor who just won the Nobel economics prize, said: «Mr Brown and Alistair Darling have defined the character of the worldwide rescue effort, with other wealthy nations playing catch - up.»

Wealthy nations still haven't explained how they plan to fulfill their pledge to provide $ 100 billion to poorer countries.

Wealthy nations mix up HFC numbers The PNAS study finds that developed nations have to improve their accounting of HFC emissions to UNFCCC, as well.