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China is expected to overtake the United States to become the world's biggest emitter in 2007, while India becomes the third - biggest emitter by around 2015.

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.

Not exact matches

By late 2018 the federal government will require Mexico's biggest emitters to participate.

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.

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.

The world's biggest carbon emitters agreed that the world should limit warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, and raise $ 100 billion annually by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change.

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 structure of the Copenhagen Accord recognized the need for action by all the big emitters, though it kept a differentiation — a less rigid one than Kyoto — between the character of the developed and developing country commitments.

He restated a longstanding position of the United States — on the need for meaningful action by all big emitters, whether already rich or on the way to getting rich.

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.

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.

* Pledges for emissions cuts by 2020 that were made by the world's biggest emitters in 2010 don't correspond to the «lowest cost» emissions reduction trajectory and would lead to greenhouse gas concentrations of as much as 650 ppm by 2100.

How fast renewable energy and the rest will spread depends on the policies adopted by the world's big emitters.

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.

Since the United States and China worked together to set ambitious climate targets last year, leading by example, many of the world's biggest emitters have come forward with new climate plans of their own.

The biggest natural emitters of methane are wetlands and lakes, both of which are affected by the impacts of climate change, namely increased temperatures and changing hydrology.

As the state's biggest single carbon emitter, Colstrip became front and center of the discussion as Montana considered the steep emissions cuts mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, a cornerstone of meeting Obama's global commitment.

China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, will limit its total emissions for the first time by the end of this decade, according to a top government advisor.

The move comes after about 190 nations, including some the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters such as the US and China, agreed on a deal in Durban to develop a global pact for reducing emissions by 2015.

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.

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.

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.

Developed countries are historically the biggest emitters and are most responsible for the damage done by climate change.

Duke, based in Charlotte, N.C., where LP Amina also has an office, is by most accounts the biggest coal burner and carbon - dioxide emitter in the United States.

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.

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.

There's a reason Indonesia is the third - largest greenhouse gas emitter and this is far and away the biggest part: Yale e360 highlights a new report produced by some of the biggest names in environmental activism that shows how

It'd be easy to go with the Atlantic and frame the governor as a hero, but he landed in office by promising to cut vehicle taxes and has been in bed ever since with the state's biggest greenhouse gas emitter and the world's fifth biggest corporation, Chevron.

By focusing on finding and fixing the biggest emitters, companies can significantly reduce the amount of methane leaking into the atmosphere.

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.

Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel and industry since 1960 (top left); global emissions by fuel type (middle left); Territorial (solid) and consumption (dashed) emissions by country group (bottom left); territorial emissions from biggest emitters (top right); per capita emissions from biggest emitters (bottom right).

In fact, divide the total revenue collected through the carbon levy by total emissions from big emitters and you've effectively got a carbon tax of less than $ 2 a tonne, not nearly enough to drive down industry emissions.

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.