Sentences with phrase «capita approach»

This per - capita approach tells a great story about how LEED has become an important benchmark in the transformation of the nation's built environment.

These include allocating the budget on the basis of equal individual rights (a per capita approach), historical rights (that is, «grandfathering»), historical responsibility (that is, accounting for cumulative emissions), and sufficiency (that is, enough for a decent life) 7,51.

Garnaut then discusses in detail contraction - and - convergence, which he calls the «per - capita approach».

However, Egypt was quick to note that if a per capita approach is taken alongside the other principles of equity, where developed and developing countries are distinguished by capabilities and responsibilities, that shouldn't be a problem.

(Peter Singer also has an essay, «One Atmosphere,» in which he defends the per - capita approach.)

If you believe that China can and should continue to increase investment until capital stock per capita approaches US or Japanese levels, then clearly China should continue to invest, and it should invest more in the poorer regions than in the richer ones.

Not exact matches

India's GDP per capita, for instance, is about US$ 1,700, while China's is approaching US$ 10,000.

Auto Parts With EVs and autonomous vehicles approaching on the horizon, less auto parts will be needed per capita.

Should China eventually approach the number of cars per capita in the U.S., they'd see more than a billion vehicles on their roads.

Under both ethical approaches, wealthier regions would save the most in per capita terms.

A global warming phenomenon in our spaceship is one of several unintended effects of the unregulated, swift increase of 1) absolute global human population numbers, 2) per capita consumption of limited resources, and 3) large - scale business activities that could be occurring synergistically and approaching a point in history when it will not be possible for the Earth's resource base and frangible ecosystems services to sustain life as we now know it to be.

We believe this approach of sharing emssions fairly per capita worldwide, and a process of aligning all nations to that is vital.

At their peak, France's per - capita emissions were 19 tonnes, while Germany's approached 15 tonnes.

As the nation's wealth has risen — approaching $ 40,000 per capita — the Taiwanese somehow managed to waste less and defy the notion put forth by economists Michael McDonough and Carl Riccadonna that economic growth leads to more consumption and, therefore, more waste.

If «equity» is defined as the human right to sustainable development, then only two approaches to a global fair - shares reference framework — cumulative per - capita budget sharing and «responsibility and capacity index» based effort sharing — are at all promising, and the BASIC paper clearly moves these two approaches forward.

Due to its rapid economic development, per capita emissions in China are quickly approaching levels common in the industrialised countries of the Annex I group under the Kyoto Protocol.

«Due to rapid economic development, per capita emissions in China are quickly approaching levels common in the industrialized countries.

We downscale four planetary boundaries (climate change, land - system change, freshwater use and biogeochemical flows) to per capita equivalents, following the approach proposed by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency9.

A proper equity approach would stick to the historical responsibility as outlined in the preamble of the Convention and would recognize that in some countries per - capita emissions might actually need to grow in order to fight poverty.

Indeed, in the work of those like Shue who embrace a «the rich must go first» approach (as opposed to an equal per capita allocations approach), the absence of any justification for an answer to «first, but by how much and for how long?»

India is now looking actively at a per capita - plus approach.

[89]: 144 Due to China's fast economic development, its annual per capita emissions are quickly approaching the levels of those in the Annex I group of the Kyoto Protocol (i.e., the developed countries excluding the USA).

Consumption patterns and associated per capita shares of resource use and pollution differ enormously, and using a consumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing power parity).

The more the industrialized community looks at a comprehensive approach, the worse the U.S. looks because of our high per capita emissions.

As we approach the number of lawyers per capita that exists in the US, we will approach their disaster of a litigation system.