Sentences with phrase «while poorer nations»

But here's what the UNEP says rich and poor countries should focus on: Rich countries should spend their efforts to slash their use of fossil fuels to avert carbon emissions (rapidly rising nations such as China, India and Brazil should focus on this as well), while poorer nations should spend at least one percent of GDP on expanding access to clean water and improving sanitation for the poor.

Rich nations want guarantees that the money will be used appropriately, while poor nations want to ensure they don't lose their sovereignty in exchange for their resources.

Also, while poor nations see the amounts as insufficient, powerful countries, including China (which long hid behind its status as a developing country), have pledged money and technical aid to help shield the world's most vulnerable communities from climatic and coastal hazards.

In general, rich nations have wanted to curb emissions, while poor nations have worried about restrictions that might limit economic growth.

Not exact matches

Disasters happen all the time, food shortage has been around for a while in poorer nations (it's not a new thing).

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

The media promote luxuries, encourage waste, and praise the life of things, while the gap between the rich and poor increases both within and between nations.

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.

This reality helps us understand Henry's exasperated incredulity at the spectacle of the nation becoming richer and richer while its public realm became poorer and poorer — his deep - seated anger at the inconceivably extensive degradation of aesthetic experience in postwar America.

The minute - long spot attacking Boehner's plan says the book of Proverbs «teaches that where there is not leadership a nation falls and the poor are shunned while the rich have many friends.»

While over half of the world's nations have abolished capital punishment, and while international criticism of the U.S. has been intense, America continues to condemn the poor and racial minorities (particularly those who kill whites) in disproportionate numbers, as well as the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, juveniles (here the U.S. leads the world) and sometimes the innocent — and all this to no apparent deterrent efWhile over half of the world's nations have abolished capital punishment, and while international criticism of the U.S. has been intense, America continues to condemn the poor and racial minorities (particularly those who kill whites) in disproportionate numbers, as well as the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, juveniles (here the U.S. leads the world) and sometimes the innocent — and all this to no apparent deterrent efwhile international criticism of the U.S. has been intense, America continues to condemn the poor and racial minorities (particularly those who kill whites) in disproportionate numbers, as well as the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, juveniles (here the U.S. leads the world) and sometimes the innocent — and all this to no apparent deterrent effect.

While the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics» 74,000 - member trade group partners with the likes of Coke and Hershey's, the nation's health continues to suffer from poor diet.

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.»

Emerging economies like Saudi Arabia and China, the world's top emitter, want rich countries to commit to doing more to cut greenhouse gas output while allowing poorer nations to burn more fossil fuels to build their economies and end poverty.

That lost revenue is punching gaping holes in the budgets of both wealthy and poor nations, according to IMF, while the benefits of the subsidies are flowing disproportionately to the wealthy.

In an effort to prop up the scheme, a handful of European countries have already pledged at least $ 135 million to pay above - market rates to projects in the world's poorest nations while offering technical support to help emerging economies such as Brazil and China cut their emissions.

While the world believes they are a poor third world nation, in reality they are the most technologically - advanced society on Earth thanks to an ancient meteorite containing «vibranium.»

Clichés and poor effects - laden images (like the nation's capital being nearly bulldozed while the Stars and Stripes manages to stand firm) unintentionally left me feeling more like laughing than running for cover.

Unquestionably, Friedman will ridicule the whiners who complain that No Child Left Behind is leading to too much homework and too little summer vacation for poor little Susie, while other nations leap ahead.

While the short - term economic outlook for the United States is relatively good, the report says, worsening, long - term social problems such as poor - performing schools continue to trouble the nation.

While the nation's governors failed to rally behind a single recommendation last week on how Congress should structure a new welfare system, they did agree that any overhaul should include services to poor children and provide assistance to prevent teenage pregnancy.

«Illinois has the most inequitable education funding system in the nation, where poorer districts spend as little as $ 6,000 per student while wealthier districts spend up to $ 30,000 per student,» Ostro said in a statement.

But the «we need to spend more» mantra has been blown up countless times, most recently by Minnesota reformer / writer Chris Stewart who pointed out that North High, one of the poorest performing schools in Minneapolis, receives budget allocations that amount to $ 17,460 per student, while Southwest High, a school ranked among the best in the nation, gets just $ 7,782 per student.

In Memphis, one of the poorest cities in the nation, 87 percent of students get subsidized meals, while 84 percent are black.

Minority students in New Zealand, including indigenous Maori, are concentrated in the nation's poorest schools, while fewer than 1 percent of students of European descent are enrolled in schools with the highest number of low - income students.

While there always have been inequalities among the nation's public schools, the gap in spending between public schools in the poorest and most - affluent communities has grown during the past decade.

And while in the UK the Beatles were singing We Can Work It Out, in Singapore they were really having to work it out, as this new nation had a poor, unskilled, mostly illiterate workforce.

The Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Public Charter Schools is a new annual award to honor the urban public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.

The Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Public Charter Schools is an annual award to honor the urban public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.

The resilience of people also varies, while many richer nations may be able to weather climate change, many poorer nations are already seeing distress in their water and food supplies.

I am a strong proponent of controlling pollution, not just CO2 (soot has done much to reduce the ice's albedo) and it is preposterous that China is being given such latitude as a «poor nation» when it's also building skyscrapers by the dozen, nuclear submarines and a space program while effectively employing its youth as feedstock for manufacturing goods subsidized by their government.

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.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

While publics in both rich and poor nations are generally supportive of their own governments taking action to curb greenhouse gas emissions, in principle many people believe that wealthy societies, not poor economies, should take on more of the responsibility for addressing climate change.

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.

Because a high percentage of the arguments made by most proponents of climate change policy have been focused on adverse climate impacts that citizens will experience where they live, while ignoring the harms to hundreds of millions of vulnerable poor people around the world that are being affected by GHG emissions from all - high emitting nations, along with claims that mainstream climate science is credible and has been undermined by morally reprehensible tactics, there is a need to make more people aware of:

While all countries will need to undergo a managed decline of their fossil fuel sectors, the poorest nations will need significant support, including being allowed to burn their fair share of the global carbon budget to aid in the transition.

The four principal projects are these: a democratically elected world parliament; a democratised United Nations General Assembly, which captures the powers now vested in the Security Council; an International Clearing Union, which automatically discharges trade deficits and prevents the accumulation of debt; a Fair Trade Organization, which restrains the rich while emancipating the poor.

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere, and nearly half of the population lives on less than 2 dollars a day, while at the same time the nation is experiencing a serious deforestation problem, with some 21 % of the country's forest cover being destroyed between 1990 and 2005, and although that rate has slowed somewhat, it's still losing 1 % of its forests each year.

Global warming, for example, is expected to increase crop yields in temperate northern regions, where the rich, industrial countries are located, while harming agriculture in the lower, warmer latitudes where most poor nations are.

But while the Paris talks resolved those clashes by treating wealthier and poorer nations differently, a two - tiered aviation deal could violate ICAO's own principle of non-discrimination in the organization's founding treaty, the Chicago Convention.

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

Major powers on board include all five permanent members of the UN Security Council while representation from developing nations has been poor, particularly among states from Africa, Asia - Pacific, and the Middle East.