Sentences with phrase «as major emitters»

CO2 is a key greenhouse gas leading to anthropogenic climate change, with cities around the world as major emitters of CO2.

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U.S. Seeing Red as Temps Rise Derelict Oil Wells May Be Major Methane Emitters

«HFC 23 emitters can earn almost twice as much from the CDM credits as they can from selling refrigerant gases — by any measure a major distortion of the market,» writes Michael Wara of Stanford University, US, in the journal Nature.

One major implication of the IPCC's carbon budget, they said, is that developing countries that are set to surpass the industrialized world as the biggest CO2 emitters during the 21st country will need to cut their emissions sooner than currently planned.

It is as diversified as possible, yet contains no extractive companies, major carbon emitters, or pipelines.

There are alternate strategies as well: I know a firm working with the major insurance and financial sectors to deny financing to carbon emitters as a way to force change, since the US government is filled with hopeless whores.

And yet that is the central issue facing the world at Durban: most non Annex - 1 countries — a category now including such poverty - stricken nations as the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Singapore and so on — insist that a new round of Kyoto is the be-all and end - all, an absolute precondition for any progress towards a truly global deal encompassing all the major emitters.

Second place was scooped up by the U.S. as well, this time for re-opening the Major Emitters (or as they call it, Major Economies) negotiations in the midst of the Bali negotiations, distracting from the process at hand.

If it is China, then all the more reason to support China's low - carbon growth policies, to demand more nuclear / hydro / CCS / wind etc and to work as hard as possible at crafting a truly global emissions treaty that will include targets of some sort for all major emitters.

Up until recently, historic greenhouse gas emitters like the U.S. were unwilling to budge on climate negotiations until other countries particularly China, who are now major greenhouse gas emitters, reduced emissions as well.

Last October, a group of powerful Republican and Democrat senators introduced the McCain - Lieberman Bill to the US Senate (as an amendment to the Climate Stewardship Act) that would have required major emitters in the USA to adhere to mandatory, economy - wide emission caps.

With the world's two major emitters sending their top leaders to Copenhagen with gifts of numerical targets, and with the U.S. successfully engaging India to commit to a successful Copenhagen outcome just as it did with China (see my guest post on Climate Progress on the new U.S. - India Green Partnership), momentum is definitely picking up as with just a week and a half to go before the Copenhagen climate conference begins.

The caps would apply to all major emitters of CO2 (defined as those responsible for more than 10,000 metric tonnes of CO2 per annum) and emitters of other industrial greenhouse gases.

The United States» Congress won't pass domestic legislation without key developing countries like China, which is now a major greenhouse gas emitter signing on to reduction commitments; and China sees themselves as a developing country that has acted progressively and responsibly to address climate change when it technically has no obligation to do so under the UNFCCC.

Among industrialized countries, Australia has the thirteenth largest population but is the seventh largest emitter.23 In absolute terms our emissions (528 Mt) are higher than those of some major European countries such as France (502 Mt) and Italy (527 Mt) and only 20 per cent lower than those of the UK (661 Mt).

Unfortunately, Australia's plan, like Europe's, gave away far too much to major emitters of CO2 and does far too little to reduce emissions, aiming for a 5 percent cut in carbon by 2020, with uncertainty as to how deep the cuts may be beyond then.

Take a look at ideas such as those proposed in the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project for the major emitters, and discuss those instead of saying it is just too impossible to be worth any effort.

We agree that ExxonMobil, as a major carbon emitter on the global scale, needs to be a more credible participant in the global dialogue regarding the climate threat, which would mean essentially doing another 180 - degree turn back toward the curiosity - driven, honest approach to climate change it took back in the 1970s.

Matthew Marler, yes, the DDPP proposes practical methods for the major emitters to decrease fast enough to meet global emission budget targets such as those from the IPCC.

The AWG - LTC will be the pathway to reframe the worlds countries in terms of major emitters vs. rest of the world, or take a more differentiated approach to CBDR as I've argued for before (see previous post «Thinking Out of the Climate Box: Re-Examining Monolithic Approaches to the «Common But Differentiated Responsibilities» Impasse «-RRB-, against China's wishes.

Peru as hosts and Brazil as an influential player at previous climate summits are in a strong position to bridge the differences between the major emitters — China, the United States and the European Union — and to bring on board developing countries.

To avoid administrative paralysis, economic disruption, and political backlash, the Tailoring Rule exempts all but the largest GHG emitters from PSD and Title permitting requirements over the next six years, raising from 100/250 tons per year to 75,000 / 100,000 tons per year the cutoff for regulation as a «major» emitting facility.

Bledsoe sees signs of meaningful progress by major emitters such as China.

In fact, not only could the South American forest soon lose its status as the planet's most - important «carbon sink», but an increased frequency of severe droughts could transform it into a major emitter or harmful carbon emissions.

They reminded the world that India a major emitter due only to its size, the emissions historically, as well as per capita, are very low.

India's reply was consistent: perhaps we haven't made ourselves clear enough, but we are not major emitters — we are an enormous country with a very small per - capita carbon footprint, and to put us at the same level as A1 countries is to undermine the very principles of the Convention and to shift the focus of obligation to developing countries.

By Friday, the draft negotiating text had swelled to 60 pages, threatening a reprise of the build - up to the chaotic Copenhagen Summit in 2009, when divisions between major emitters meant world leaders had no workable draft to agree as a climate treaty.

Would China and India own their responsibility as «major emitters» and rise to the occasion?

In his time as a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani, Holmstead was implicated in a 2010 scandal revealing that he and another former Bush EPA official - turned - lobbyist ghostwrote a legislative amendment for Senator Lisa Murkowski (I - AK) that would have undermined the Clean Air Act's provision to control climate - altering greenhouse gases from major emitters.

If the major emitters of greenhouse gases find it hard to agree on setting caps on emissions now, what makes you think the world can agree to injecting aerosols in the stratosphere as a solution?

Invest in a Digital Smart Grid: Obama will pursue a major investment in our utility grid to enable a tremendous increase in renewable generation and accommodate modern energy requirements, such as reliability, smart metering, and distributed storage Restore U.S. Leadership on Climate Change Create New Forum of Largest Greenhouse Gas Emitters: Obama will create a Global Energy Forum — that includes all G - 8 members plus Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa — the largest energy consuming nations from both the developed and developing world.