Sentences with phrase «biggest emitters in»

* 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.

The big emitters in Durban, so the BBC tells me, aren't even thinking of a DEAL before 2015, far less emissions peaking.

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.

New York University, for example, may rank as a big emitter in New York, but a year ago it opened a co-generation facility that makes electricity and uses the waste heat to heat and cool buildings, thus doing far more work per pound of carbon dioxide emitted than most other sources.

In fact, notwithstanding that it is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and one of the top five per - capita polluters, Canada says it won't lift a finger against climate change unless the big emitters in the developing world first commit to taking action.

Not exact matches

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not confirm whether the United States would remain in the global climate change pact, under which nearly all countries agreed in 2015 to halt or curb their greenhouse gas emissions, even as the world's biggest emitter China reaffirmed its commitment to the agreement.

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

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

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.

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.

It is imperative that big emitters improve their performance in this regard and governments provide more incentives to make this happen.»

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

«Persuading regulated emitters to participate in carbon trading is a big challenge,» said an executive of a Chinese emissions exchange who asked to not be named.

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.

Given the country's status of being the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, Greenpeace says, a tiny drop in China's carbon emissions could translate into a big change in the international stage.

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, the world's biggest emitter, is making the world's biggest effort to check growth in its pollution.

A third of food is wasted, making it third - biggest carbon emitter, UN says ROME, Sept 11 (Reuters)-- The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday... http://www.pointcarbon.com/news/reutersnews/1.2564792

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

Work is well underway in many areas, and of course the world's biggest emitter, China, is also transforming itself into the clean - tech powerhouse of the globe.

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.

It would be hard to imagine, speaking for the United States, that there could be the level of financial commitment that I have just announced in the absence of transparency from the second biggest emitter — and now I guess the first biggest emitter, and now nearly, if not already, the second biggest economy.

Overall, the meetings of the world's biggest emitters produced what many analysts say is the first sign that treaty talks culminating in December 2009 could produce a meaningful, if still preliminary, step forward from the 1992 climate treaty and its struggling addendum, the Kyoto Protocol.

The bigger deadlock remains, however, with the once and future major emitters of greenhouse gases — the United States and China — still locked in the old Alphonse and Gaston routine, each offering the other the opportunity to step first.

My guess is that if the Australian program sticks — it remains controversial, and others on this email can comment more about that — then Australia will be a leader in trying to get some coherent international strategy that includes China, the US and other big emitters.

Updates below, 12:42 p.m. After years of «you first» rhetoric on addressing the unrelenting buildup of climate - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, China and the United States, the world's biggest emitters, agreed in Beijing on Wednesday to intensify domestic steps and international partnerships to rein in their contributions to global warming.

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

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.

Moreover, even those programs that have been implemented as claimed have, for the most part, proved singularly ineffective, especially the much - touted Greenhouse Challenge Program which, in the end, is little more than a tax - payer funded PR exercise for some of Australia's biggest emitters.

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.

There three troublesome letter of M, R and V (for «measurable, reportable and verifiable») has taken center stage in the dynamics between the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

The world's biggest emitters have reached a consensus of sorts, but not the one hoped for in Copenhagen.

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.

«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.»

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.

They are organized around flexibility, around engaging as many countries as possible, especially the big emitters from developing and developed countries alike, and they are organized around what might be called a bottom - up process in which individual countries make pledges and they reveal what they are willing and able to do on their own.

Global carbon emissions stood still in 2016, and all of the world's biggest emitters except for India saw falling or static carbon emissions last year due to countries increasing clean electricity usage.

Duke Energy is among the biggest electric power companies in the United States and one of the largest emitters of greenhouse - gas emissions in the world.

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.

UCS finds that Morocco and Ethiopia, minor players on the global stage, are far clearer about how they will make progress on reforestation and reducing emissions from agriculture than China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, and Canada, the ninth biggest emitter and one of the very worst in terms of per capita emissions.

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.

Should be reasonable accurate, as they want their (un) fair share of the sales as taxes... Probably somewhat underestimated due to human nature to avoid taxes and some countries who don't like to be the biggest emitters (China...), but nevertheless about twice the increase in the atmosphere...

After several years of declines, greenhouse gas emissions have inched up in the last two years in the United States, the world's second biggest emitter.

What is strange is that the mainstream media and leading climate action proponents like Merkel all pretend that Germany is a responsible leader in cutting back CO2 emissions, and even claim that big emitters, like China and India, are all onboard in curbing CO2 emissions, and that is only the USA that is the big, rogue CO2 sinner.

Now all eyes are focused on the United States and China — the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters — with just four months to go to the U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen, where nations will negotiate a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

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.

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.

It has no regional affiliation in climate talks, preferring to line up with the Basic group of big emerging economies — and emitters — including China, India and South Africa.