Sentences with phrase «within wealthier countries»

Scale makes a difference, and in the context of a true global emergency transition, domestic reductions within wealthy countries, even difficult reductions, would become extremely difficult to pass up as the pressures of stringency increase and mitigation opportunities in the South become as costly as those at home, as they eventually would under any even plausibly adequate target.

Not exact matches

And for Greece's own wealthier classes, the EU loan package would enable the country to remain within the Eurozone long enough to permit them to move their money out of the country before the point arrived at which Greece would be forced to replace the euro with the drachma and devalue it.

The deal is not between the bank and the sovereign state, it's between the bank and the wealthy interests within the country.

«I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax.

And it may assign developing countries a junior position within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change body responsible for advising on implementation and technological and scientific questions, giving researchers from wealthier countries a disproportionate say in that body's conclusions.

At the same time, the agency said, adverse health effects from climate change «will be distributed unequally within and between populations,» with wealthier countries and regions generally being better able to adapt to and mitigate against the harshest effects.

Nearly all of the wealthiest school districts are within a short distance of one of the richest cities in the country.

Even if they open in the most deprived parts of England, it will be difficult to establish catchment areas which do not include wealthier suburbs, especially as some of the poorest areas of the country exist within larger cities and metropolitan regions where deprivation can vary greatly between postcodes.

This gives us a clear mandate, one that may be challenged by events in Washington, but which will not be pushed aside to fight for a framework within which all countries, but first of all the wealthy ones, make the commitments demanded by the science, and by their own historical responsibility and capacity to act.

A common thread throughout the report is that poor nations, particularly developing countries in and near the tropics, as well as poor and vulnerable populations within wealthy nations, are likely to suffer the most severe climate change - related consequences.

Contrasting this with national 2025/2030 mitigation pledges reveals a large global mitigation gap, within which wealthier countries» mitigation pledges fall far short, while poorer countries» pledges, collectively, meet their fair share.

Norway and other wealthy countries should act according to the Lofoten Declaration and recognize that new exploration is inconsistent and no longer acceptable if we are to stay within the limits of the carbon budget.»