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Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States – the world’s largest historical carbon dioxide emitter – from the Paris agreement dealt the accord a major blow.
In fact, bottled water – including everything from “purified spring water” to flavored water and water enriched with vitamins, minerals, or electrolytes – is the largest growth area in the beverage industry, even in cities where tap water is safe and highly regulated.
According to a 2013 study by the scientist Rick Heede, nearly two-thirds of carbon dioxide emitted since the 1750s can be traced to just 90 of the largest fossil fuel- and cement-producing entities, most of which still operate.
While the largest modern companies have been ratcheting up productivity by 5.8% annually, productivity at traditional Mexican enterprises – tiny stores, bakeries, low-skill manufacturers – has been declining by 6.5%.
Now, Musharraf, in order to preserve his country’s alliance with the world’s sole superpower (and his country’s largest donor), had to betray his own.
Then, in a stunning deus ex machina, it will be revealed that the world’s largest fossil-fuel companies – the so-called supermajors – have agreed to bring net emissions to zero by 2100, by capturing carbon at the source, sucking it out of the atmosphere, and storing it underground.
Political climate change has also been brought about by people like Jerome Ringo, the president of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) , whose 4.5 million members make it one of the largest environmental organizations.
In their top-ten list are six proposals that would take advantage of the short window before and after birth when the largest difference to a child’s life can be made.
For the largest 100 companies, these shares were 54% and 68%, respectively.
The largest players are the state and business empires for which the media is not a significant profit center.
The continent is already the world's largest economic bloc, with a GDP of more than €14 trillion ($15.2
The US is the largest source of greenhouse gases, but three quarters of the sources originate outside its borders.
The End of China’s SurplusCAMBRIDGE – China’s current-account surplus – the combination of its trade surplus and its net income from foreign investments – is the largest in the world.
Throughout the Cold War, the world’s oldest democracy and its largest were essentially estranged.
The US is India’s largest trading partner (if both goods and services are included).
FDI flows, which are less volatile than other capital flows, remained by far the largest, accounting for nearly 60% of emerging markets’ total inflows in 2012.
The first – that the issuing country must be among the world’s leading exporters – is not an issue: China already is the world’s largest exporter.
Japan, too – still the largest Asian economy and a traditional donor to the region – must also play a role.
I can attest to the gathering momentum towards peace, having just returned from Palestine, where I led a nearly five-week mission of European Union observers, the largest ever put in place by the EU.
With US military spending slowing and other export markets remaining tight, American defense firms are eager to expand sales to India, which is now the world’s largest arms importer.
The discoveries are the largest oil reserves discovered in the ocean in recent years.
According to projections by the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group, in less than two decades, Western Europe will need to attract a workforce equivalent to the size of the current working population of its largest economy, Germany, in order to sustain economic growth.
At the end of last year, Japan was Vietnam’s largest source of official development assistance (ODA), its second-largest foreign investor, and its fourth-largest trade partner.
Despite the increasing importance of remittances from Italy, Spain, and the United States, the largest share in absolute terms still originates from France.
The third, comprising perhaps the largest camp, is to retreat below deck and wring one’s hands, bemoaning the expulsion from paradise and fearful of a looming apocalypse.
Instead of capital flowing from rich to poor, just the opposite happened: it flowed from poor to rich, the overwhelmingly largest stream going to the US, whose rate of capital inflow is now the largest of any country, anywhere, anytime.
The manufacturing sector, too, could be built up; at the moment, the kingdom has only small-scale domestic manufacturing, despite being one of the largest markets in the region for cars, machinery, and other capital goods.
The militants’ targets included branches of Bangkok Bank, the country’s largest and a pillar of the establishment;Siam Square, owned by the Palace; and a deluxe shopping mall owned by one of the richest Thai Chinese families.
They then made use of the “Constitutional Court” to ban Thaksin’s party, the largest in the country.
In the showcase capital, Pyongyang, there is not even enough electricity to keep the lights on in the largest hotels.
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