Nepal is a small land locked country (total area 147,181 sq. km) located in South Asia between China and India.
A land locked country bordered by Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, as well the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan, Uganda sits in the midst of a vibrant regional trading block of (mostly) growing African nations in East Africa.
Lao PDR is a mountainous land locked country in South East Asia and has a population with a wide ranging socio-cultural and ethnic composition.
"Zambia, a land locked country in southern Africa, has been badly hit by the HIV and AIDS pandemic," said Veneman. "It is estimated that over 1 million people have died from AIDS-related diseases.
It wreaks economic havoc as well, locking countries into cycles of poor nutrition, lost productivity, poverty and reduced economic growth".
However, the ratification locks countries into the deal for four years, so an immediate US exit wouldn't be possible.
It would also lock countries in Central and Southern Europe into long-term Russian energy contracts that would prevent them from diversifying their sources.
If these investments lock countries into high-carbon economies with dirty growth, powered by fossil fuels, the world will not be able to reach its climate target of avoiding warming of more than two degrees.
Aid money, trade agreements and corporate 'investment' pushed by Britain are locking countries into a form of growth which is all about making the rich even more rich and the poor even more poor".
Failure to encourage energy-efficiency and low-carbon in new builds or retrofitting will lock countries into the disadvantages of poor performing buildings for decades.
It locks countries into a cycle of poverty for ever.
