Sentences with phrase «with poorer developing countries»

At a news conference on Tuesday, Yu Qingtai, China's special representative on climate change, said China stood with poorer developing countries insisting that the financial obligation of rich nations to compensate poor ones fully for the costs attending climate change was enshrined in the original 1992 framework treaty.

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Those high regulatory costs, combined with low returns, tend to keep corporations from developing GM crops for poor countries.

According to Bloomberg, «the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, whose increase in the past three months was the steepest in seven decades, is rallying in tandem with benchmark measures for raw materials, developing - country equities and hedge funds.

The inventors» desire to donate Golden Rice as a gift to resource - poor farmers in developing countries led to a public - private partnership with Syngenta to help further develop Golden Rice.

In other words, obstetricians are faced with a population that suffers poorer health than other developed countries, yet manage to save the lives of the babies under their care at a comparatively higher rate.

1.35 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diarrhoeal diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and overcrowding.

In developing countries, outcomes are sometimes worse in kids that breastfeed for longer, probably in part because this might be occurring in poorer families with other challenges, but having breast milk displace other foods, such as those rich in iron, is probably part of the picture.

Maternal mortality is increasingly high, Nigeria has one of the poorest maternal and child health indices in the world with maternal 800-3000 deaths per 100,000 live births, life time risk of dying from pregnancy related complications of 1:8 compared to 1:10 in developing countries (Nigeria Demographic Health Survey 2004).

In developing countries with very poor healthcare system, like Nigeria, the average life expectancy is 40 years, with the lowest in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland which is 35 years, Nigeria has a life expectancy of 44 years compared to life expectancy of 82 in Japan and 80 in Switzerland (Population Reference Bureau, 2007).

So there are great success stories, we are developing a national elephant conservation plant for Tanzania in cooperation with the government privately funded, and they were so excited about it, they began to co-fund it through their agencies, as difficult as that is for a country as poor as Tanzania.

Writing in the journal Science, researchers note that helping developing countries» small farmers find ways to make better use of marginal land and cope with overfarmed fields is key to feeding the world's poorest people.

Discussion of the $ 100 billion that developed countries have agreed to provide to poor countries by 2020 to cope with warming will not occur until the second week of the conference.

Rich and poor were deadlocked on Wednesday over how to raise aid to help developing countries cope with the damaging effects of global warming, in a setback at United Nations climate talks in Warsaw seeking progress towards a 2015 accord.

And this year's negotiations must produce a road map toward the $ 100 billion a year by 2020 that developed countries have promised to raise to help poor nations cope with warming.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

When implemented with other social and economic improvements, family planning is one of the most effective ways of managing increases in population growth and for delivering extensive health benefits, in both developed and poor countries.

And although treatment with rehydration salts and proper food can save lives, researchers have been working for years on a vaccine that could reduce the severity of the disease, especially in developing countries with poor health care and nutrition.

Asked whether a new developed - world commitment would be important in Marrakech, U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa told Climatewire this week that wealthy countries appeared willing to provide poor ones with the assurances they seek.

In my opinion wealthy developed countries such as US, Europe, Japan etc should pay a subsidy to poor countries with rainforests on the understanding that forests such as Amazon, Congo, Borneo are then not cut down.

«Many parts of the coast can, with forward planning, adapt to sea - level rise, but we need to better understand environments that will struggle to adapt, such as developing countries with large low - lying river deltas sensitive to salinisation, or coral reefs and particularly small, remote islands or poorer communities,» said Dr Brown.

The European Union in the draft reaffirmed its commitment to the joint developed - world pledge to mobilize at least $ 100 billion a year by 2020 to help poor countries cope with the impacts of global warming.

Compared with children in developed countries, children in the developing world show a poorer response to oral vaccines (such as oral polio vaccine), whereas their response to vaccines that are administered systemically by injection (such as measles vaccine) doesn't appear to be much different.

developing country A relatively poor nation with little industry and a lower standard of living than industrial countries, such as the United States, Germany and Japan.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

The concept of sustainable development is being criticized, in Brazil and in other Latin American countries, since the word development is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

With an influx of tech workers into San Francisco in recent years, the disparity between the rich and the poor is more alarming than ever with studies comparing income inequality in San Francisco on par with that of a developing counWith an influx of tech workers into San Francisco in recent years, the disparity between the rich and the poor is more alarming than ever with studies comparing income inequality in San Francisco on par with that of a developing counwith studies comparing income inequality in San Francisco on par with that of a developing counwith that of a developing country.

But it's developing countries with poor infrastructure, non-existent driver training, ageing cars and less advanced emergency health care that account for the majority of these deaths.

That's why so many people loved using it, not just in developed countries, but especially in poorer countries, and it's been very popular with students.

These especially poor returns have followed periods where the percentage of developed countries with positive 6 - month returns was falling, but the EAFE index was still holding up.

However, clever marketing (combined with very poor science) has resulted in these atrocious products being the major source of food fed to most pets in developed countries.

I have no idea how this could be seen as remotely compatible with developing countries» longstanding interpretation of «common but differentiated responsibilities» of rich and poor countries under the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

In a three - day summit at the United Nations on global warming this week, a parade of representatives from developing countries expressed growing discontent with the lack of action by rich ones to start curbing emissions of greenhouse gases that, in the long run, are likely to exact the most harm in the world's poorest places.

I'll keep this short: whatever attempts and successes developed countries assist in providing to poorer countries, as far as standards of living, I hope, I hope, I hope, that with those improvements we also help these developing nations retain their cultural heritage, celebrate it and NOT AD WALMARTS, STARBUCKS, OPRAH»S FAVORITE THINGS and inevitably more and more and more damn stuff.

One which doesn't have anything at all to do with the question of whether the countries involved are rich or poor, developed, developing, or underdeveloped.

Its conclusions, as I wrote today, largely follow those of other United Nations assessments of the challenges posed by human - caused climate change — particularly the call for prompt, aggressive reductions in greenhouse gases by developed countries, along with a lot more aid for the poor countries most in harm's way.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

The Paris Agreement sealed in 2015 brought together the U.S. and European Union with big developing nations from China to India to Brazil in pledging limits on fossil - fuel pollution and funds to help poorer countries adapt to climate change.

e A renewed emphasis on the poorest people and those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, acknowledging that all countries will be impacted by climate change, with developing countries the least able to cope;

This technical document summarizes the output of three Round Table on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change (RTOACC) workshops held to identify available data as well as to pinpoint data gaps that need to be filled in order to develop an organic agriculture methodology for the carbon market that would synergize with general development goals and also potentially benefit smallholders in poor countries.

As poorer countries develop and the world's population grows, emissions associated with food waste could soar from 0.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year to between 1.9 and 2.5 gigatonnes annually by mid-century, showed the study published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal.

whilst australia's poor & marginalised — not a large number in a country with a total population of less than 23 million — pay disproportionately for all the Government increases in tobacco taxes at home, the fact is our highly - populated asian neighbours are taking up smoking at a rapid rate and no doubt adding some $ $ $ to tobacoo company revenues in the developed world!

Key topics up for discussion are likely to be how emission reductions can be «equitably» shared between rich and poor countries, together with the criteria used to develop the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) for a proposed 2015 climate agreement.

Developing countries, faced with a choice between energy development for poor populations and mitigating climate risk for future generations, have consistently chosen the former; they are building new, fossil - based energy infrastructure as fast as they can.

The developed countries further indicated that, with the global recession, they are unable to make firm commitments to finance poor nations» efforts to adapt.

The IPCC said yesterday that the effects of this rise are being felt sooner than anticipated with the poorest countries and the poorest people set to suffer the worst of shifts in rainfall patterns, temperature rises and the viability of agriculture across much of the developing world.

We as the public can not allow our governments to ignore these innovative means of finance if we are ever to reach the sums necessary to deal with the impacts of climate change and to ensure poorer countries are able to develop cleanly.

... 尽管中国是一个发展中国家 ， 仍然有1.5 亿贫困人口 ， 但是我们在南南合作 和双边合作的框架内为最不发达国家 、 小岛屿国家和非洲国家提供了力所能及的帮助 ， 以便提高他们应对气候变化的能力和手段 。 (roughly:... although China is a developing country, there are still 150 million poor people, but we have, in the framework of the South - South cooperation and bilateral cooperation, provided assistance to the least developed countries, small island countries and African countries, and help to improve their ability to cope with climate change and means.)

We are partnering with Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP.org) to empower individuals to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest people.

Policymakers concerned with international climate finance, particularly board members of the nascent Green Climate Fund, should first be asking the question posed in our report: what are the needs of developing countries, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, as they confront the climate crisis?