Sentences with phrase «co2 emitting nations»

A working paper from the International Monetary Fund looks at the top 20 CO2 emitting nations, responsible for 79 % of world greenhouse gas emissions.

Not exact matches

The U.S. has 104 reactors scattered throughout the country, producing 20 percent of the nation's electricity — and 70 percent of our electricity that emits relatively little CO2 pollution, a point emphasized by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.

Of course, the world's nations emit over 30 billion metric tons of CO2 a year.

The rise from 650,000 tons of CO2 emitted per year to 10 million is an astronomical one, and it's exactly the kind of high - emissions growth that many nations are trying to avoid at all costs.

Contrast with the effort to reduce CO2 which requires agreements among all major emitting nations.

Rather than fighting for the right to emit ever more CO2 as their economies grow, poor nations should be demanding «the right to sustainable development,» he said.

If you believe «yes», then it would seem to come down to whether an individual nation can afford to and will be willing to take actions the actions required to convert from CO2 emitting technologies.

• Approaches that account for the global dimensions of achieving and maintaining sustainable levels of atmospheric CO2 and encourage cooperative action by all countries, including the U.S. and large emitting nations in the developing world, to implement CO2 emission reduction strategies.

This result is clearly grossly unfair particularly in light of the fact that India has emitted far less tons of CO2 than most developed countries and therefore is less responsible for causing the existing problem than many developed nations.

He confirmed that China (and India) would be the primary CO2 emitters of the 21st century, that they «have a right» to develop their economies even if this means emitting more CO2 and that any CO2 curtailment activities made by the already industrialized nations of North America, Europe plus Japan will be futile unless China and India join in.

And the only way we will actually solve this problem is globally; just as it is to each individual's advantage to keep emitting as much CO2 as they please, so it is essentially to the advantage of every nation of the world, looking at only its own benefit, and not the costs to others.

Because, as we have demonstrated in the recent article on «equity» and climate change, there are approximately 50 ppm of CO2 equivalent atmospheric space that remain to be allocated among all nations to give the world approximately a 50 % chance of avoiding a 2oC warming and developing nations that have done little to elevate atmospheric CO2 to current levels need a significant portion of the remaining atmospheric space, high emitting developed nations need to reduce their emissions as fast as possible to levels that represent their fair share of the remaining acceptable global budget.

Moreover, even drastic reductions in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions will mean nothing globally, because China, India and other developing nations are now emitting far more CO2 than the United States could eliminate even by shutting down its economy.»

And since the carbon tax will most likely just move jobs from the idiot nations that put one in place to the non-idiot nations like China and India... the amount of CO2 emitted will go up.

Hundreds of U.S. coal plants have been shuttered in recent years largely because of a monumental nation - wide shift to natural gas power generation, a cleaner fuel that emits much less CO2 upon combustion than does coal.

Willie Soon asked in his comment if the «United Nations IPCC people [were] really serious about alarming the world, yet again, that we will all die if we do not stop emitting CO2 immediately,» and wrote the IPCC is «not entitled to their own facts, no matter how many times they continue to cry wolf about our common future... Our wonderful planet is not IPCC's private casino parlor.»

There is poor information of benefits of emitting CO2 There is virtually no reliable information to describe to describle what harms will occur to a particular nation.

The discussion may be «over» regarding the GH theory, that CO2 is a GH gas or that humans emit CO2 from fossil fuel combustion, etc. (with more affluent nations emitting more than impoverished ones).