Sentences with phrase «biggest emitter at»

The U.S., the world's biggest emitter at the time, signed up but never ratified.

Not exact matches

The U.S. has said no, and so there are these kind of two parallel tracks, one negotiating at the successor of, son of Kyoto and one negotiating whatever kind of deal [would] bring in more countries, not just the U.S. but also developing countries like China and India that have become big emitters.

But coal provides more than half of the electricity used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

Two ways of looking at the biggest CO2 emitters in the world http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/08/daily-chart-down-under-and-dirty

There's a batch of new proposals for breaking the persistent global deadlock over dealing with global warming, all coming as world leaders prepare to meet at the Group of 8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, and in parallel sessions of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases.

«Without the active participation of the two biggest emitters, namely China and the United States, it's not a global effort,» said Shimada, who was formerly Japan's lead negotiator at the talks.

China, the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, is forecast to unseat Germany as the largest solar market in 2013, according to analysts at BNEF.

Asia Sentinel: The world faces another 17 years of potentially growing emissions from China's industries Despite having become the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases nearly two years ago, China is at least another 17 years away from peak emissions, according to a new report by the HSBC Climate Change Team, issued late last year.

But this climate - science denial letter was different in one key respect — it was written by David Shuford, a vice president and deputy general counsel at Dominion Resources Inc., Virginia's largest energy company and the commonwealth's biggest emitter of climate - disrupting carbon dioxide.

Now, with demand running at high levels, big Chinese panel makers have the confidence to invest in leading technologies such as PERC (passivated emitter rear contact) lines.

The third biggest greenhouse gas emitter in Australia's power sector also recognises the reality of climate change: GDF SUEZ reaffirms its commitment to combatting climate change at the Climate Summit in New - York.

As the world's second - biggest emitter of carbon dioxide pollution, the U.S. could render the global treaty meaningless, at a time when scientists are urging nations to quickly raise their ambition, or risk an escalating climate crisis.

Here's a look at the difference a 1990 vs. a 2005 baseline makes in the 12 biggest carbon emitters in the world (plus the European Union):

As both the House and the Senate grapple with proposed carbon - cutting measures — carbon taxes and «cap - and - trade» schemes for big CO2 emitters such as coal - fired power plants; increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, SUVs, and trucks; and mandatory set - asides for clean renewable energy in the mix of energy generation options — emissions from aircraft seem, at least for the time being, to have gone over the heads of most policymakers engaged in the rush to cut carbon emissions.

The other big emitters are the United States at 14 percent, the European Union at 10 percent, and India at six percent, the Global Carbon Project report says.

It is quite easy for media, for big emitters: the U.S., China, Russia... but above all the U.S., to manipulate our genuine compassion as youth when criticizing local arab governments without pointing fingers back at themselves.

To address this threat to competitiveness, the Leach panel recommended that some of the revenues collected through the carbon tax — at least $ 2.5 billion, by some estimates — be returned to big emitters by way of a subsidy tied to how much they produce, whether it's barrels of oil or kilowatts of electricity or some other sector - specific output.