The IEA believes that CCS plays a key role in an ambitious, climate - friendly future energy scenario, accounting for one - sixth of required emissions reductions by 2050. (iea.org)
Unfortunately, the fact that the world's second largest emitter and largest per - capita emitter, the United States, famously never ratified the Kyoto Protocol — the very idea of the protocol was rejected by the U.S. Senate in 1997 by a vote of 95 - 0 — and that it does not require emission reductions from developing countries including the biggest emitters like China and India, calls into question whether the protocol by itself could ever assure climate safety. (grist.org)
The three were designed to resemble proposed U.S. climate policies, with the clean - energy standard requiring emissions reductions from power plants similar to those proposed in the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan. (sciencedaily.com)