Sentences with phrase «while wealthy nations»

Fast - developing countries such as China promised to limit emissions as a share of their growing economies, while wealthy nations such as the United States pledged reductions from historic levels.

Projections by experts at the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggest that the growth in energy use to 2030 will happen in the emerging economies, like China and India, while the wealthier nations» use is more or less flat.

Not exact matches

So while the heart of this argument and debate revolves around big money properties (team owners and wealthy players), the effect on the nation's economy would be considerably greater and have a massive effect on small business.

Chile is South America's wealthiest nation and, while the crypto market is still small there, it was growing fast.

$ 100 a month for NY families — while the wealthy turn this nation into a third world economy.

Study coauthor Peter McIntyre, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, notes that wealthier nations can manage the problem with complex sanitation facilities and other engineering schemes while the underlying issues — water scarcity and pollution — continue to intensify.

While writing his dissertation at Oxford in the mid-1980s, he saw residents of some low - income countries — China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India — repeatedly trumpeted as healthier than others and, in terms of mortality rate improvement, doing even better than those in many wealthy Western nations.

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.

And while parks services in wealthy nations have billion - dollar annual budgets to resist these threats, in some developing countries they have to manage on less than $ 10,000.

«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.

While approximately three - fourths of four year olds in America are involved in some kind of educational program, the United States still ranks only 25th out of the 34 most wealthy and upcoming nations in the world in terms of early childhood education, lagging behind the likes of Portugal and Mexico.

While American moms won't soon enjoy the year of paid leave that a number of other wealthy nations offer, President Obama's budget proposal did include a $ 50 million State Paid Leave Fund, which would provide competitive planning grants to states to design and implement new paid family - leave insurance programs.

While Connecticut ranks as among the wealthiest states in the nation, Connecticut's failed school funding system leaves many communities without the financial resources they need to ensure that all of the state's children have access to high quality educational opportunities.

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.

And just 34 % of Japanese believe rich countries should do more about climate change, while 58 % say developing countries should do just as much as wealthy nations.

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.

DC grows phenomenally wealthy while the rest of the nation suffers.

The cities most at risk in richer nations include Miami, Boston and Nagoya, while cities in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Ivory Coast are among those most in danger in less wealthy countries.

RawStory: The rise of developing nations has cut poverty while the combined economies of Brazil, China and India are on a path to overtake wealthy nations, but failure to act on climate change could reverse those gains, a UN report said Thursday.

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.

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.

He also argues that the time has come to consider «shared sacrifice» in the world's wealthiest nations: a course of voluntary economic contraction in developed economies (thus reducing fossil energy consumption), while allowing developing nations time to shift from dirty to clean energy.

Some have said that Bitcoin makes much more sense in the developing world, while others claim developed nations like the United States have the sort of tech savvy and wealthy population necessary to give this new technology a boost.

It has some of the wealthiest communities in the nation, while others are quite the opposite; Hartford, for example is one of the 10 communities with the lowest per capita incomes in the U.S. Heavy industry is a key driver of the Connecticut economy, with production of transportation equipment, especially helicopters, aircraft parts, and nuclear submarines; heavy industrial machinery and electrical equipment; military weaponry; fabricated metal products; chemical and pharmaceutical products; and scientific instruments.

While Ross» recovery is impressive, wealthy neighborhoods are not leading the nation's housing recovery.