Sentences with phrase «carbon polluters»

How far will fossil fuel industry - funded elected officials go to protect one of the biggest carbon polluters in the world?

The pledge puts Brazil in the company of 82 other countries — including the U.S., China, and other large carbon polluters in the European Union — that have submitted their climate pledges to the United Nations.

Filmmaker Vanessa Black takes a look one of the biggest carbon polluters in the US, Peabody Energy, and the coal industry's rearguard efforts to stop the progress of clean energy anyway it can.

Australians, the worst carbon polluters in the OECD, not only have a moral responsibility to do more than everyone else but also happen to be blessed with the capacity to lead the world.

The Southern Company is the top carbon polluter among U.S. utilities and the eighth - biggest in the world, according to Carbon Monitoring for Action.

For the first time the Doha agreement sets up a mechanism by which vulnerable nations may receive funds from carbon polluters for loss and damages.

This year's intense wildfire season turned California's forests into carbon polluters.

I truly think we should all cut down on our carbon emissions, and to use Kyoto and Amsterdam as models would be admirable, but under NO circumstances should the West be bound by financial penalties to offset the real carbon polluters such as China and India.

Under NO circumstances should the West be bound by financial penalties to offset the real carbon polluters such as China and India.

But since he is in the grips of carbon polluters, we have to rely on state and local governments and business leaders to step up their actions.

This documentary captures the crusading president's first year in office, following him as he struggled to win cooperation from the world's biggest carbon polluters at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.

Alex concurs: Recreational space travel, at least with the current technology, is a huge and unnecessary carbon polluter.

With a population four times that of the United States, China is now the largest net carbon polluter — yet the country has pushed forward against climate change and flattened their emissions since 2013.

I don't think so, UK is rated as the top 7 emitter of the world «stop carbon polluter the only thing that can make it nice is bycontributing an act to stop global warming as well as othercountries since UK has been signed up to Kyoto protocol since 1995

India is the third biggest carbon polluter behind China and the US — although it remains a very distant third.

The largest corporate carbon polluters in America, 14 years ago, asked their own people to conduct a review of all of this science.

COP participants underscore the ever - present divide, and tension, between fewer than two dozen developed countries (and leading carbon polluters) and the rest of the world.

From food (the average American eats 260 pounds of meat a year) to energy (we are still the biggest carbon polluter on the planet).

From Germany's largest utility E.On selling off its coal and gas assets to Australia's biggest carbon polluter moving to zero emissions by 2050, the ball is well and truly rolling in terms of a transition away from fossil fuels.

But Cleantechnica reports that AGL, which happens to be Australia's largest utility carbon polluter, has just announced it will begin shifting its business model to completely eliminate carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest.

In an announcement that originated in a ministerial level meeting in Tokyo, Japanese negotiators reiterated a position they have been making for a year now: they will not sign onto a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, setting new and more ambitious targets for binding emission reductions among the parties of that treaty beyond 2012, unless the biggest carbon polluters do as well.

To help meet that goal, California is implementing numerous measures, including standards for renewable energy, a policy to scale up the use of clean fuels, requirements and incentives to increase the use of electric vehicles, and a flexible market - based cap on carbon emissions that creates economic incentives for major carbon polluters to cut their emissions.

That would enable solar power to become a more viable option to coal, which costs around 2 rupees a unit, in fueling Asia's third largest economy and the world's third - worst carbon polluter.

2016 could be the year when top carbon polluters and governments that ignore climate laws get dragged into the dock.

Washington state adopted a new rule Thursday to limit greenhouse - gas emissions from large carbon polluters, joining a handful of other states in capping emissions to address climate change.

Meanwhile, states in the region will look to RGGI's example as they begin to tackle the largest carbon polluter in the region, our aging transportation system, with measures to modernize mobility, grow the economy, and further protect public health.

If the world's biggest carbon polluter (and also, not coincidentally, the world's biggest clean energy investor) can adopt a national carbon price, Canada's provinces should have nothing to fear.

The Harper government has argued that taking unilateral action to reduce Canada's carbon emissions would be hopelessly ineffective and costly without the cooperation of the US and China, the world's major carbon polluters.

Pension funds urge Britain's biggest carbon polluters to come clean over financial crisis that lies ahead

A new report by the World Health Organization shows disparities between the biggest carbon polluters and homes to cities with the worst air pollution.

Cap and trade systems, like those in place in Europe and in several U.S. interstate pacts, involve limits on greenhouse emissions and tradable emissions certificates that carbon polluters must purchase in order to operate.

He said that a rapid expansion in the country's low - carbon power generation will also weigh in, helping the world's largest carbon polluter to reach its emissions peak faster.

In his campaign last fall, President Barack Obama called for a «cap and trade» plan that would auction off carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions allowances to big carbon polluters.

The large carbon polluters have taken the playbook written by the tobacco industry, which responded to the scientific consensus linking cigarettes and lung and heart diseases by hiring actors, dressing them up as doctors and putting them in front of cameras to falsely reassure people that there were no consequences to smoking cigarettes.

The large carbon polluters have spent between one [billion and] two billion dollars putting out pseudoscience and creating false doubts.

Local governments and strong coal interests also present obstacles to China's transition from the world's biggest carbon polluter to an economy largely powered by clean energy.

But in dry years, the Amazon turns into a carbon polluter, releasing more carbon than it takes up.

The US, the European Union, China and India are the world's biggest carbon polluters, so if India can reduce its emissions it would be meaningful for the world and would also put a burden on the other three (whose emissions are much bigger) to do more in this regard.

However, even the most efficient coal power stations are major carbon polluters.

By contrast the bulk of the regions colored red (so - called «carbon polluters») were in undeveloped, densely - forested equatorial regions of Africa and South America.

Most of the Carmichael mine's coal will be purchased by India — the world's third - largest carbon polluter.

Things are different partly because the two biggest carbon polluters, the US and China, last week pledged to do something meaningful — though not that much.

In the 45 or so minutes of ensuing conversation — punctuated by a couple of screaming matches in Mandarin between members of the Chinese delegation that were not translated — the world's biggest carbon polluters, for the first time in history, agreed on a common goal.

As the world's second - biggest carbon polluter, the U.S. emits about 10 times as much greenhouse gas as Mexico, but Mexico's pledge could be the more significant of the two.

They took a page from the playbook of the tobacco companies... the same thing is going on now with some, not all, some of the large carbon polluters, putting out false information, hiring pseudo scientists to pretend that they have the lowdown on the science...

Big carbon polluters are failing to offer strong, specific plans for land use as part of the pledges they're releasing ahead of the Paris talks, known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), according to a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

A determined minority — with active financial support from a few large carbon polluters — has held up progress for quite a while.

... There has been an enormous amount of money spent by large carbon polluters and their ideological allies to try to create false doubt.