Sentences with phrase «which rich nations»

That is not inappropriate: Climate change is, at its base, an environmental - justice issue, in which the rich nations of the world are inflicting damage on the poor ones.

2012 marks the end of the two - year period during which rich nations must prove that they have cut emissions from 1990 levels.

Delegates were split over a deal under which rich nations would pay when poor ones suffered the consequences of global warming.

Yet here, perhaps, is the best way in which richer nations can effectively help the poorer ones.

And which, it should be mentioned, climatologists say are required to keep global average temperature rise below 2 °C, but which no rich nation has pledged to meet.

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This is a nation in which arguably the most important phrase ever attributed to its transformational leader, Deng Xiaoping, was «to get rich is glorious.»

Soon - Shiong is worth an estimated $ 11.8 billion, according to Forbes magazine, which says he is the nation's 34th richest person and the richest man in Los Angeles.

The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

America before 1930 was a society in which a small number of very rich people controlled a large share of the nation's wealth.

Current development can, in fact, be described as the process by which the rich and more powerful reallocate the nation's natural resources in their favor and modern technology is the tool that subserves this process.

Efforts to promote such changes in the guise of human rights are correctly condemned as egregious instances of «cultural imperialism» by which elites of certain rich nations, not least of the United States, attempt to impose their values on the rest of the world.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

By contrast, government action in America reduces child poverty by a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nations.

Frank Rich of the Times witnessed the thirty - five thousand Promise Keepers gathered at Shea Stadium and did his homework by reading the Nation, which featured PK as its hysteria of the week.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

This nation, through a varied history, rich in external and internal experience, had become far removed from the primitive life of immediate dependence on nature, in which neighboring Oriental peoples still more or less lingered.

Your JESUS followers - after destroying a rich and prosperous nation called Iraq to find weapons of mass destructions (which never found till today) sent 1.2 million innocent people 40 % of them are children to heaven..

Cuomo, while praising the state's Marriage Equality Act, Paid Family Leave Act, the free SUNY tuition plan and the rise of the minimum wage in New York City to $ 15 as successes, he blamed the rise in anti-Semitism and «hate» crimes on President Donald Trump's administration, which is «dividing the nation, pitting rich against poor and black against white.»

The nation's top energy - industry lobbyist said Cuomo's «knee - jerk» ban on fracking is being «cheered» by the gas and oil industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, all of which share the gas - rich Marcellus Shale region with New York.

Did you notice that the bank bailout (TARP), which included a lot more than banks, was one of the most egregious cases of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor in our nation's history?

Anyhoo, did you notice that the bank bailout (TARP), which included a lot more than banks, was one of the most egregious cases of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor in our nation's history?

At recent United Nations meetings, it has been broadly agreed that money needs to be channelled from rich nations, which are historically responsible for the bulk of emissions, to poorer nations, which tend to suffer most from the impacts of those emiNations meetings, it has been broadly agreed that money needs to be channelled from rich nations, which are historically responsible for the bulk of emissions, to poorer nations, which tend to suffer most from the impacts of those eminations, which are historically responsible for the bulk of emissions, to poorer nations, which tend to suffer most from the impacts of those eminations, which tend to suffer most from the impacts of those emissions.

The bank, which is dominated by rich nations, wants to take command of a network of agricultural research centres and their priceless collections of genetic varieties of crops.

At the AAAS conference, he extolled the rich history of the area, which includes 26 federally recognized Native American nations within the United States, plus indigenous communities within Mexico.

In every nation, rich and poor, in which a choice of contraceptives is available and is backed up by reasonably accessible safe abortion for when contraception fails, women have two or fewer children.

ENVIRONMENTAL economists are refusing to revise a controversial report on the social cost of global warming, which values the lives of people in rich nations up to fifteen times higher than those in poor countries.

Not very well, according to the latest estimate of the carbon cuts promised by rich nations, which shows that the pledges made so far fall short of what is needed to avoid dangerous climate change.

The film, centering on T'Challa, king and defender of the world's richest and most technologically advanced nation, Wakanda, is adorned in a matte - black vibranium suite which matches up perfectly with the technologically advanced materials at use in Clarks Originals» matte - black iteration of the Trigenic Evo.

Intelligence is one of the most divine gift to all human whether he / she is poor or rich which itself a self - responsibility to protect the same by respecting interdependency.The fragmentation of societies and nations has not brought us isolation from the troubles of others.

The Bush Institute is committed to advancing the accountability of our nation's campuses, which starts with making sure schools have a rich amount of data.

Eager to push back, Hall helped organize a «parent union» at her daughter's school, with help from the nonprofit Parent Revolution, which has received millions in funding from some of the nation's richest philanthropies to organize moms and dads into a counterweight to teachers unions.

Washington Latin Public Charter School is an eight - year college preparatory school which provides students in the nation's capital with a rich and comprehensive academic program in the classical tradition.

Makes perfect sense, until you consider the fact that this nation separated itself from England to get rid of that old order in which they could never hope to rise above their rich merchant - class statuses.

Ambitious, rich, and compassionate, The Lives of Others is a novel of unflinching power and emotional force which anatomizes the soul of a nation as it unfolds a family's history.

The United States is rich in documents, many which remain in obscurity, but which contain valuable information about the formation of this nation, while at the same time contain lessons for where we are right now.

It is designed to embrace the ethos of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in hosting events within the Geopark area which reflect the rich natural and cultural heritage of the border regions of counties Fermanagh and Cavan.

Regardless of their nation's external poverty, Cambodians are people rich with compassion, which is always more valuable.

It is considered one of the world's first nation states, from the tenth millennium BCE, with one of the longest histories of any modern country, which is one of the reasons so many come to see its rich cultural heritage.

Over the past 12 months, they've brought a circuitous running track, Positive Pathways (+)(2016), to the European School of Management and Technology (a location for fellow collective DIS's Berlin Biennale) and to New York's Mitchell - Innes and Nash (which newly represents GCC) in a commentary on the growing pervasiveness of wellness culture among Gulf elites; they've digitally renovated an oil sheik's Paris manse, now complete with a hidden elevator for his perfunctory Lamborghini, in a video work at London's Project Native Informant, which looks critically on the racially - and culturally - charged attacks on oil - rich Gulf expats who have bought up some of the West's best addresses over recent decades; and they've launched a branding agency for an undisclosed nation from the region, the services of which it has then licensed to citizens via an app for a solo booth last year at Art Basel in Miami Beach.

Through much of the meeting, President Evo Morales of Bolivia was the face of poor countries calling for the rich nations, which built nearly all of the existing human - generated blanket of greenhouse gases, to pay a «climate debt» to the world's vulnerable communities.

On Friday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain gave a speech on climate in which he proposed that the rich nations ante up some $ 100 billion a year in such assistance by 2020.

In endless negotiations under this treaty, which will resume in Cancún, Mexico, at the end of the month, powerful subtexts have shaped public postures of rich countries, emerging powers and the world's poorest nations.

More broadly one could just as easily highlight how though overwhelmingly climate change has been caused by actions of the rich nations of the world (with China and a few other newly - industrialized and highly - deforesting nations added in), it will be the poorest nations of the world which will bear the greatest burden.

Accelerated depletion, which SCOTUS found in 1911 to be a scam, the practice of writing down your inventories in the ground even while they become more valuable over time, that's just begging poor while getting rich to avoid shouldering a fair share of the cost of upholding the nation.

Rich, industrialised countries like the EU and US have a legal obligation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC — which the talks fall under) to take the lead in cutting their emissions while providing the finance and technology to poorer countries to adapt to climate impacts and avoid the same fossil - fuel intensive development pathways they did.

What has happened over the past 30 years is the capture of the world's common treasury by a handful of people, assisted by neoliberal policies which were first imposed on rich nations by Thatcher and Reagan.

Which is to say that, encountering the central precepts of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change, which declare that the burdens of climate stabilization must be divided between nations «on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities,» we must admit that this means taking proper account of the rich - poor divide within countWhich is to say that, encountering the central precepts of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change, which declare that the burdens of climate stabilization must be divided between nations «on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities,» we must admit that this means taking proper account of the rich - poor divide within countwhich declare that the burdens of climate stabilization must be divided between nations «on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities,» we must admit that this means taking proper account of the rich - poor divide within countries.

The broken promises will make it harder for developing countries to take seriously what richer nations say at the UN climate change talks, which take place in Doha, Qatar from 26 November to 7 December.