Sentences with phrase «wealthy nations who»

Then as now, according to many COP23 participants, it is the U.S. and the wealthy nations who are delaying doing their fair share of the heavy lifting.

Not exact matches

«One of our biggest requests is for the international community - wealthier nations - to provide more support to help organisations such as Tearfund who are on the ground to help more people.»

The Sadducees were a loose confederation of wealthy and powerful men, who took a secular — pragmatic, rather than a spiritual — ideological stance with regard to the Jewish nation and its spirituality.

For some reason, I feel like calling myself «blessed» sends the message that I have somehow earned God's special favor, that God is rewarding me for good behavior, and that the millions of people who suffer from war, famine, poverty, and sickness because they weren't lucky (or blessed or fortunate) enough to be born in the wealthiest nation in the world are simply not as loved by God.

In a capitalist nation such as the United States or Canada, those who benefit most from the social arrangements are the wealthy.

Those who died in the United States represent a cross section of the human community: 4,000 people from more than 80 nations, people of nearly every ethnicity and religious belief, wealthy individuals and people with very little, including low - wage immigrant workers.

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.»

Highlighting the stories of area residents who have been directly impacted by past budget cuts, the NYInequality coalition is seeking to persuade local lawmakers to fight back against giving the wealthiest another tax windfall, especially since New York ranks first in the nation for income inequality.

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.

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.

Wealthy nations not spared But the developed world won't be spared from the effects of rising temperatures, according to WHO.

Perhaps an increasing number of teary - eyed, sneezing, sleep - deprived, wheezing people who are missing work and school will generate sufficient political will in the wealthiest nations to stop greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize the global climate.

From these subtle yet powerful opening scenes (it's the poor and the disenfranchised who fight for the wealthy and powerful), The Manchurian Candidate explores a multitude of political «issues» to a lesser or greater extent: the ill that is committed under the guise of defending a nation; the behind - the - scenes machinations of any country's political process; the unpalatable relationship between entertainment, money and politics, and most specifically, the enormous influence big business has on politics and politicians.

This long - term NAEP test is a statistically representative sample of students in the entire nation, including the wealthiest children who attend private schools.

«The 51 - to - 50 vote elevates Ms. DeVos — a wealthy donor from Michigan who has devoted much of her life to expanding educational choice through charter schools and vouchers, but has limited experience with the public school system — to be steward of the nation's schools.

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The outcomes from these talks remain in doubt and other questions fester, like to what will the U.S. commit to?For an effective climate deal at December's Copenhagen Climate Summit, the world's wealthiest nations, the G8 countries, who are at the core of the MEF, need to take the lead both at MEF and when they meet in L'Aquila, Italy for the G8 Summit next month.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

Many of the world's poorer countries and those who'll feel the effects most keenly of climate change have been calling on the more wealthy nations

The wealthiest nation in the history of man provides many many years of theft for those who can stomach being thieves.

Yet according to those who aren't so enamored with these symbols of distributed energy — ahem, certain backwards - looking utilities — solar panels are only found on top of the absurdly large mansions of the nation's wealthy.

Wealthy nations with a perception of wealth due to their history of benefiting from fossil fuel burning owe compensation to other nations for CO2 impacts and assistance to developing nations so they can bypass the damaging step of fossil fuel burning as they advance (and the wealthy nations that should be financially compensating and assisting other nations includes nations like Saudi Arabia who continue to try to maintain a perception that they are a developing nation needing CO2 impact compensation and assisWealthy nations with a perception of wealth due to their history of benefiting from fossil fuel burning owe compensation to other nations for CO2 impacts and assistance to developing nations so they can bypass the damaging step of fossil fuel burning as they advance (and the wealthy nations that should be financially compensating and assisting other nations includes nations like Saudi Arabia who continue to try to maintain a perception that they are a developing nation needing CO2 impact compensation and assiswealthy nations that should be financially compensating and assisting other nations includes nations like Saudi Arabia who continue to try to maintain a perception that they are a developing nation needing CO2 impact compensation and assistance).

The divide between what the world's wealthy nations are willing to commit to in regards to combatting climate change and what the poorer nations (read: those who will be worst affected) say must be done seems to only be growing.

I think it is rather facile, from the comfort of the wealthiest nation on earth, to dismiss those who have been concerned about the «population bomb».

It is alarming to know that in a nation as wealthy as Australia, and one which is a net exporter of food, there are people who experience food security from time to time and some, indeed, who regularly can not access the food they need for a healthy diet.