Sentences with phrase «classified as greenhouse gases»

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China still is classified as a developing country and is thus exempt from any emissions limits, but it has a vastly larger economy than it had in 1992 and recently surpassed the United States as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

(2) the Environmental Protection Agency was correct not to classify greenhouse gases as pollutants prior to 2009;

This categorization is problematic because this classification into these two categories arguably made some limited sense when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was opened for ratification in 1992, but it doesn't now given that some of the countries that were initially classified as developing countries, including India and China, are quickly emerging as the among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases (ghg).