Sentences with phrase «carbon space»

They can demand that they have the right of sustainable development and the rich countries can take more carbon space only if they transfer finance and technology for low carbon growth in developing countries.

India will, therefore, occupy only about 7 % of the remaining carbon space by 2030 compared to 11 % by the US and 25 % by China.

«We want free carbon space where our development can be parked.

If this is by design, then it is quite a convenient deal wherein the world's top two polluters have agreed to take whatever carbon space they need, leaving the remaining for the rest of the world.

However it also allows for much less carbon space for the developing countries.»

«In reference to this issue it may be noted that the background paper had kept track of both the physical carbon space as well as the over-occupation by the developed countries.

The developing countries can come together and demand their rightful carbon space.

To buttress this argument, there is a growing body of academic literature that makes the point that the atmosphere belongs to everyone on earth, the available carbon space must be apportioned equally, and going by that, India has a lot of its quota left.

They can demand that the remaining carbon space must be apportioned based on historical responsibility and present capability.

And it has long resisted calls to cap its future emissions, arguing that it has not historically contributed much to climate change, and will need «carbon space» in the future to grow its economy and lift hundreds of millions of people from poverty.

«We need carbon space, please vacate the carbon space which countries have occupied,» Prakash Javadekar, India's environment minister, said in a recent interview.

To understand why India, despite its fast - growing emissions, has demanded and gotten what its environment minister called «carbon space,» just do a side by side comparison of the United States, where the average person's activities result in about 17 tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, and India, where 400 million people still lack an electric light or clean cooking fuel and where per capita annual emissions are 1.9 tons per person.

Its demand for a substantial portion of the atmosphere's remaining «carbon space» — essentially making room for that coal growth — is legitimate and ethical, as long as it is doing whatever it can (with financing or technical help from rich countries) to build the most efficient, cleanest coal plants possible.

Modi struck back by reiterating his theme that India didn't cause the problem, describing wealthier industrial nations as «those who have the luxury of choices and the capability of technology will make adjustments to sharply reduce their carbon emission,» and insisting their actions must be «consistent with the carbon space they occupy.»

«And, they must leave enough of what is left of our carbon space to let developing countries grow,» Modi added.