Sentences with phrase «by major emitters»

It promised billions of dollars in climate financing for developing nations, but did not require deeper emissions cuts by major emitters.

the range of the GHG emission reductions will depend on the following conditions: - Appropriate accounting of the potential of Russia's forestry in frame of contribution in meeting the obligations of the anthropogenic emissions reduction; - Undertaking by all major emitters the legally binding obligations to reduce anthropogenic GHG emissions.

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

We know that reducing emissions will be costly, might have little effect, and is unlikely to be undertaken by the major emitters.

Not exact matches

Cotton fertilizers are major greenhouse gas emitters, and trucking cotton from farms to industrial gins, spinners and weavers generates transportation emissions, compounded by repeated energy - intensive heating and cooling processes.

The conference agreed that by 2015 governments would finalise a «protocol, legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force» that would impose targets on all major emitters, rich and poor.

According to the U.S. interpretation, the Durban agreement calls for all major emitters to, for the first time in history, by 2020 be held to the same legal obligations in the quest to cut carbon.

In the last two rounds of annual climate talks, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Cancún, Mexico, more than 80 countries — including major emitters not bound by the Kyoto protocol like Brazil, China, Indonesia and the US — pledged voluntary targets.

«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.

The United States and European Union had pushed for major emitters — and particularly governments of G - 20 nations — to unveil their plans by the end of March.

«(ii) the state or province by itself is a major emitter of greenhouse gases from tropical deforestation on a scale commensurate to the emissions of other countries; and

The declaration states: «In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.»

By then the major emitters will be China, India and US (probably in that order).

In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.

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.

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.

My print story today assessing the outcome of President Bush's effort to extract climate plans from the «major economies» (aka «major emitters») includes a description by Gwyn Prins of a moment when those imperatives seemed to clash.

This post was held up by the flood of climate news last week out of the «major emitters» meetings in Japan and Washington:

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.

By 2020, OECD90 still remains a major emitter, but emissions in ASIA and ALM are increasing at much higher rates.

«(ii) the state or province by itself is a major emitter of greenhouse gases from tropical deforestation on a scale commensurate to the emissions of other countries; and

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

All of the world's major emitters, both developed and developing, must make significant contributions to hitting IPCC's «50 by 50» goal, and that can best be accomplished through cooperation and healthy competition in the race for the best alternatives to our carbon loaded energy economy.

Brussels, 27 September 2007 - Friends of the Earth Europe has warned that US President George Bush aims to undermine the ongoing UN climate negotiations by hosting a meeting of major greenhouse gas emitters in Washington today and tomorrow.

While the introduction of a tax - based mitigation system would take the world significantly forward, the Review has come to the view that only an international agreement that explicitly distributes the abatement burden across countries by allocating internationally tradable emissions entitlements has any chance of achieving the depth, speed and breadth of action that is now required in all major emitters, including developing countries.

Part of it can be explained by the reluctance of other major emitters to bind their emerging economies to specific outcomes.

Washington state, like the entire West Coast, is a leader on forward - thinking climate policy with legislative targets for emission reductions, a greenhouse gas inventory of major emitters, and a Clean Air Rule adopted by the Inslee Administration.

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.

Caps will error because (1) they won't cover some major emitters for decades, (2) they won't cover land - use changes, (3) the best scientific estimate of climate sensitivity is uncertain by hundreds of billions of tonnes, (4) the earth's CO2 uptake by 2 ° target date is highly uncertain.

Major emitters are required under a 2008 law signed by President George W. Bush to provide detailed annual reports of their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other heat - trapping gases that contribute to global warming.

The bloc's proposed greenhouse gas curb will be studied closely by China, the US and other major emitters ahead of a global climate summit in Paris next year that aims to agree on the first new emissions - cutting treaty since the Kyoto protocol in 1997.

The EU will strengthen its Emissions Trading System from 2013 by expanding it to include greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide and to incorporate all major industrial emitters.