Sentences with phrase «what wealthy nations»

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.

Not exact matches

«What has gone wrong in this wealthy, well - educated nation?»

Why is it that Nigeria's money have to be spent on such project, what would be the contribution of the other first ladies financially, why should Nigeria portray herself as a wealthy nation when it is obvious that the contrary is true?

But even before all the data were in, the researchers began to suspect that their assumptions were wrong, says lead study author Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Public Health Policy at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. «The stereotype that many of us in the U.S. and Europe have of an institution is not what is being set up in less wealthy nations,» Whetten says.

Still, Ogden noted, a number of key issues central to the 2015 agreement remain unresolved — like what legal form the deal will take, how countries will prove they are making progress on mitigation targets and how much money wealthy nations will pony up to help poorer ones cut carbon and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

What seemed like a wonky and legalistic categorizing section took on high drama as some developing countries tried to use the so - called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (or INDCs) as a place to remind wealthy nations that there is and will remain a stark divide.

What's surprising is that half of the world's countries — including wealthy and growing middle - income nations — still struggle to extend quality care so that it reaches all women.

I'm afraid I'll sound condescending here, but if you don't at least follow the news, you probably are going to find Syriana to be a tedious watch, and that's a shame in itself, as ignorance to world events is what greases the wheels of the grand machine that keeps corporations fat and happy, politicians in their pockets, foreign regimes in a constant state of perpetual flux, and the standard of living for millions of people near destitute in what should be the among the wealthiest nations on the face of the Earth.

They are disgusted that the wealthiest nation on Earth is undermining their desperate efforts to get the help they need to survive a problem they didn't even create (an American emits many times what they do into the air).

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.»

What a huge step toward world peace if all wealthy nations agreed to do the same!

This is what they did — these climate «scientists» on whose unsupported word the world's classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights.

In what appears contradictory, Lomborg then advocates for investments in green energy technologies, ``... At the same time, wealthy Western nations must step up investments into research and development in green energy technologies to ensure that cleaner energy eventually becomes so cheap that everyone will want it.»

«Although wealthy nations like the US and the UK satisfy the basic needs of their citizens, they do so at a level of resource use that is far beyond what is globally sustainable,» said William Lamb, of the Mercator Research Institute on global commons and climate change in Berlin, and a co-author.

Developing countries also say some wealthier countries − in particular, the US − are seeking to weaken the financial negotiating position of poorer nations by questioning long - held definitions of what constitutes a developed and a developing country — «differentiation», in UN jargon.

You can do what negotiators for wealthy nations have been doing all through the Kyoto talks: Buy your way out of guilt.

In short, and you've heard TreeHugger and many others say it before, but it bears repeating: There are simply not enough resources on the planet to extend what is considered a normal, even essential, level of material consumption in wealthy nations to a planet with 6 billion and growing people: Resource Use Increasing Faster Than Population Consider some stats.

But there is little chance that what the developing countries would most like to see — new concessional financing for adaptation and mitigation that is and provided from the national budgets of the wealthy nations — will be forthcoming.

Financial Assistance For Climate Change Adaptation Another part of the demand / request (call it what you will) is that the wealthy nations of the world offer up some financial aid for climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.

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.