Sentences with phrase «capita emitters»

Canada, one of the largest per - capita emitters of climate pollution in the world, from the looks of it is doing nothing more than their newfound friends down under who are lounging around in t - shirts, gorging on snacks.

So there you are... Top 5 emitters (2007): China, USA, India, Russia, Japan Top 5 per capita emitters (2006, ignoring small countries emitting less than 0.5 % of the world total which would other crowd the list): USA, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Khazakstan

WHILE Australia's new carbon tax, announced last week, is a step in the right direction it is unlikely to change the country's status as the largest per - capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the developed world.

The fact that the world's highest per capita emitter and largest coal exporter puts a price on carbon sends a signal internationally.

Australia is the highest per capita emitter, heavily reliant on coal and resources industries have very strong political influence.

The UNFCCC principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities» [ii] means Australia, as a developed country and high per - capita emitter, has the obligation and capacity to lead.

Australia is the highest per capita emitter of GHG.

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.

Not exact matches

And this is really a serious thing to think about because, Africa, for example, is way down there, barely off the graph, and India too, which is now in the top ten CO2 emitters, is nowhere near the global per capita emissions.

South Africa is, per capita, one of the 20 highest carbon emitters in the world.

The bottom line is that 50 percent cuts by 2050 is the minimum effort to avert a climate catastrophe, and America must make the maximum effort possible as the number one per capita and historical emitter of heat - trapping pollution.

First we stole the title of world's best per capita greenhouse emitters, then we robbed you of the biggest new homes trophy.

As one of the highest per capita greenhouse emitters in the world we serve as a model for countries wishing to resist action on climate change.

This even includes the USA, despite the fact that the USA is the largest historical CO2 emitter, the second - largest current emitter, and has one of the highest current per capita emissions rates.

They will also continue to point out that the U.S. still has high per - capita emissions, remains the largest historic emitter, is a large importer of carbon - intensive goods made in the developing world, and has become a major producer of fossil fuels.

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.

As India — the world's third - largest emitter of greenhouse gases but 127th in terms of per capita emissions — ponders an energy - future balancing growth, jobs and environment, there is encouraging news from a new report.

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

China is now by far the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and carbon emissions per capita have reached the level of the European Union.

If the United States is a very large emitter of gigs compared to most other nations in terms of historical and per capita emissions, why doesn't the United States have an ethical duty to fund reasonable climate change adaptation measures in and losses and damages of poor developing countries that have done little or nothing to cause human - induced warming.

While the province emits less than 1 % of total global emissions, it is one of the largest per capita GHG emitters in the world, the paper noted.

They reminded the world that India a major emitter due only to its size, the emissions historically, as well as per capita, are very low.

India's reply was consistent: perhaps we haven't made ourselves clear enough, but we are not major emitters — we are an enormous country with a very small per - capita carbon footprint, and to put us at the same level as A1 countries is to undermine the very principles of the Convention and to shift the focus of obligation to developing countries.

As of 2006, China and India were amongst the top 10 CO2 emitters, while on a per capita basis, the top four emitters were Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

US is the second largest emitter in the word (next to China) and one of the countries with the largest emission per capita (US: 16.2, China: 6.5, EU: 7.6 tonneCO2 / capita).

The nation's aggregate carbon emissions now top Japan's, 45 % of the land is degraded, groundwater levels are dropping rapidly... Here are the details: India Now World's Fourth Largest Carbon Emitter India's per capita carbon emissions remain very low — about 1 / 20th of those in the United States and probably actually below what could be extended equitably to everyone on the planet — but multiply those by one billion - plus people and it really adds up.

Despite making China a focus of global concern because it became the single largest energy user and carbon emitter, China's 2010 per capita energy use (1.85 metric tons of oil equivalent, toe) was actually still below the world average (1.87 toe)[87,88].

EDITOR»S NOTE: 8/3/15: When this post was published, it incorrectly stated that Ohio was the only state in the top 10 emitters that was also part of the 10 states with the highest per capita emissions.

The U.S. is the second - highest carbon - dioxide emitter in the world, after China, and is the second highest per - capita CO2 emitter after Australia.

Developed countries — the biggest historical emitters — would «contract» emissions the most, so that emissions would «converge» on equitable shared per capita emissions.

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

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).

China recently passed the United States as the largest overall greenhouse gas emitter, though U.S. per capita emissions still far exceed China's.

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.