Sentences with phrase «biggest emitter of»

China may now officially be the world's biggest emitter of CO2 but the economic expansion, fueled in large part by coal, that is causing all those greenhouse gas emissions is set to have a greater percentage of clean energy powering it in coming years.

RWE is one of Europe's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.

China, the world's second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, announced plans yesterday to more than double its reliance on renewable energy by 2020, which could make it a leading player in the wind, solar and hydropower industries.

The oil and gas industry is the United States» biggest emitter of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

For its part, the Communist Chinese regime — which is the world's biggest emitter of CO2, emitting more than the United States and Canada combined — gets a free ride, essentially, burning fossils fuels to its heart's content, for the next 15 years.

But the pact was never ratified by the U.S. Senate, making it toothless because the United States, which was then the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, wasn't bound to the protocol.

China, for instance — the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and greatest consumer of coal in the world — has made notable strides in shifting its energy landscape in recent years.

Note China is responsible for half of the annual global coal consumption and is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, followed by the United States.

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol requires modest emission cutbacks by industrial countries but not the United States, the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases, because it rejected Kyoto.

TXU was then the state's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, one of several greenhouse gases widely thought to be fueling global warming.

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.

Speaking in Berlin a day earlier, Premier Li said China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, would stick to its commitment to fight climate change.

AGL, Australia's biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses recognises the reality of climate change and its responsibility to reduce emissions.

China is now the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases as its economy has grown, overtaking Japan to become the largest after America.

Yes, I know that Donald Trump — a man who has dismissed global warming as «very expensive... bullshit» — was elected president of the world's second biggest emitter of carbon dioxide.

«We [AGL] are going to be the biggest emitter of [carbon dioxide in Australia]-- that means we are going to need to be responsible, and take action.»

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.

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.

In the meantime, opponents of emissions limits are not assuming that the Kyoto accord is dead, despite its having been greatly weakened by the rejection from the United States, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.

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

The team admit there is some uncertainty over the date when China may have become the biggest emitter of CO2, as their analysis is based on 2004 data.

The United States is the second biggest emitter of carbon dioxide worldwide (and has contributed, with Europe, 52 % of the share of cumulative carbon emissions since industrialization).

Just last week, Syria joined the Paris climate agreement, making the United States — the world's second - biggest emitter of greenhouse gases — the only nation whose commitment to the plan remains in question, after President Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the agreement earlier this year.

China: A November report predicts that the coal - powered, populous country will surpass the United States in 2009 as the world's biggest emitter of climate - warming carbon dioxide.

China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is betting on carbon trading as a key measure to cut its emissions for each unit of economic output 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

The world's biggest emitter of CO2 doesn't see the future in quite the same way.

If food waste was a country it would be the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases globally after China and the US.

China overtook the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007.

China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has said it will honor the Paris deal.

Its San Juan Basin facilities collectively make up one of the biggest emitters of methane in the nation.

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.

The third meeting of the world's «major economies,» in White House parlance — or biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, by another measure — concluded Friday evening in Paris.

The two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, China and the United States, joined officially on September 3 as President Obama and China's President Xi Jinping signed documents during Obama's most recent China visit.

In January 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new website that identifies most of the nation's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases.

Because of manure management and, yes, cow belches, agriculture is a bigger emitter of methane than the entire oil and gas industry.

Bizarrely, the IBUKU maps prove exactly the opposite of all conventional expectations revealing that the least industrialized regions are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases on the planet.

A bigger concern might be the presence of airborne particulates from coal - fired power plants, which are the U.S.'s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide.

Wil Burns: I started off working on the impacts of climate change on small island states, specifically how small island states might either adapt to climate change or how they might use legal mechanisms to try to «press» the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to reduce their emissions.

Over the weekend, speaking on the eve of the G20 summit in Hangzhou, history was made as President Obama and Chinese President, Xi Jinping, announced that the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases would formally ratify the Paris agreement on climate change.

China and the United States, the two biggest emitters of the carbon pollution that has brought global warming to a crisis point, formally ratified the Paris climate agreement on Saturday.

In fact, it is popular wisdom, that the US and China are the big elephants in the room, or in other words, the world's biggest emitters of CO2.

Sen. CHUCK HAGEL (R - NE): It is the developing nations that will be the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the next 25 years.

President Barack Obama said that China and the U.S. must lead the way for climate mitigation, as the two largest economies — and the two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases — in the world.

Political challenges One of the first things that come up when China and climate change are mentioned together is that the richest countries, historically and today, are by far the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases per head of population, and have the responsibility to act first.

Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain are big emitters of greenhouse gas emissions per capita.

Not exact matches

Beyond weather worries, about 57 percent of the entrepreneurs said they'd like to see the largest carbon emitters make the biggest reductions in emissions — and bear most of the costs of such efforts.

Russia, the world's biggest crude oil producer and its fifth - largest emitter of greenhouse gases, signed the Paris agreement but has delayed formally ratifying it.

The power sector contributes 40 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions of the United States, and coal - fired power plants are the sector's biggest emitters.

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.

«I think there is no climate solution without the biggest emitters working together,» said Li Shou of Greenpeace China.