Sentence examples for * capita rights from inspiring English sources

"The fundamental principle of environmental economics," he said, "was that "every country should have the same per capita rights to polltion".

Per capita allocations would also create serious incentive problems, and they would face decisive objections from the standpoint of feasibility: Per capita rights would transfer hundreds of billions of dollars annually from the United States to China and India, and the United States is most unlikely to sign a treaty with that consequence.

The House is only planning to ship us $180 per capita right now.

Let's look at it another way: We have more #teens per capita right now than we're likely to for decades.

And who cares about HIV infection in the state with the nation's third highest transmission rate per capita, right?

Any agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will give more benefits to some nations than to others, and will impose more costs on some nations than on others; in these circumstances, per capita emissions rights give the appearance but not the reality of fairness.

It is reasonable to assume that when India and China are part of a global carbon emissions pact, they will demand the same per capita emission rights for their people as we have in the west.

* 3GDP per capita threshold: 3 times Gross Domestic Product per capita.

For a city the size of Boston, it's per capita income is right in line with the hometowns of Harvard and MIT.

A further area of uncertainty is whether the average GDP per capita reflects the right threshold value [ 33].

By the end of 2007, we observed a reduction in the size of the jump in per capita infection rates right at the beginning of the school year compared to the previous year (see Fig. 5). Figure 6 shows a plot of λ, the per capita infection rate for both years (13).