Sentences with phrase «what emerging nations»

This is what emerging nations refer to as «historic climate debt.»

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California's Congressional delegation, the largest and most influential in the nation, is undergoing a major upheaval, the result of reapportionment and retirements, threatening the state's influence in Washington next year and forcing members to scramble to withstand what is emerging as a generational wave.

• The character and integrity of those with whom you are doing business • Changing technology as it impacts industries (including the banking industry) • Future changes in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare resources

For now, we are currently seeing the anticipated liquidity reduction harvest of wind in what are academically considered the riskiest of assets — emerging market equities and bonds, currencies, and commodities — as equities of developed countries such as the US, Japan and some European nations have continued to hold up.

Had everyone who knew of his struggles sat down in a room and compared notes about his recent past, perhaps an alarm would have sounded ahead of what emerged on Valentine's Day, when Cruz allegedly walked into a suburban South Florida high school and carried out one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.

What emerges is a vigorous sense of history and identity at the level of individual, tribe and nation» (The Nagas: Society, Culture and Colonial Encounter, 1990 p. 176).

What emerges from Raz's extensive examination of the primary documents, however, is a rather different story: while many Arab nations did refuse to discuss peace terms with Israel, Raz finds that the two claimants to the West Bank and Arab Jerusalem — the Palestinian leadership and King Hussein of Jordan — «were ready and eager to resolve the conflict with Israel directly».

As what's left of the nation's Special Operations forces, a mysterious group known only as «Ghosts» leads the fight back against a newly emerged, technologically - superior global power.

He soon moved away to champion a new group of artists who were emerging in the nation's capital, the Washington Color Field painters — a group including Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, and Morris Louis who achieved what the critic considered highly admirable flatness by pouring thin paint directly into the weave of their canvases.

What did it mean to grow up through the Great Depression and WWII, and emerge from the other side in utopian California only to find a similarly dysfunctional suburbia and a nation entrenched in Vietnam.

Global warming, on the other hand, is far less of an immediate threat, many of its effects can not be reversed no matter what we do, the cost of attempting such a reversal could destroy the economies of emerging nations and make their development impossible — and it is a slow moving threat, that governments can plan to deal with over time.

Developers and other stakeholders are also carefully watching the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process to see what kind of policy signals emerge from the next round of Conference of Parties (COP) negotiations in Lima next month and in Paris in 2015.

We know what works when it comes to American energy because in just a few short years our nation has emerged from decades of energy scarcity, dependency and uncertainty into this new era of American energy abundance and leadership.

It will be interesting to see what this oil - rich nation does to encourage its emerging clean - tech industries.

It's just about six months until the Rio +20 environment summit (officially the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development) takes place in Brazil and details are emerging (well, being leaked) about what nations will be asked to signNations Conference on Sustainable Development) takes place in Brazil and details are emerging (well, being leaked) about what nations will be asked to signnations will be asked to sign on to.

The fact that the U.S. Constitution no longer serves as the primary source of inspiration for constitution - making in other nations thus begs the question of what, if anything, has emerged to take its place.