Sentences with phrase «dioxide emitter»

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.

Duke, based in Charlotte, N.C., where LP Amina also has an office, is by most accounts the biggest coal burner and carbon - dioxide emitter in the United States.

So, like all ambitious peddlers of newfangled widgets, they're going where the buyers are: in this case to China, which over the past decade has become the biggest coal burner and carbon - dioxide emitter on Earth.

The goal is to develop a national carbon market over the next decade that could help put the brakes on the world's largest carbon dioxide emitter.

WILL the last great untamed carbon dioxide emitters — aviation and shipping — finally be brought under international control?

China and the United States (U.S.) are the world's top two carbon dioxide emitters.

The extraordinary growth in power generation in China in recent years, which quickly vaulted the emerging industrial powerhouse to the top of the global list of carbon dioxide emitters, has collapsed under the weight of the global economic implosion — at least for now.

The study presents a quantitative analysis of historic records for major carbon dioxide emitters worldwide, over a period starting in the 1850s — at the dawn of the industrial revolution — through 2010.

The other thing to note is that China and India are galumphing their way up the table of biggest carbon dioxide emitters.

Nicholas Akins, chief executive of AEP, one of the nation's largest carbon dioxide emitters, said that his company is already producing 21 percent less CO2 than it did in 2005 and that it plans to retire another 6,600 megawatts of coal plants by late 2015 that will bring it to a level 25 percent below 2005.

In December 2008, an International Rivers press release alleged that German utility RWE, one of the biggest carbon dioxide emitters in Europe, planned to buy carbon credits from the Xiaoxi dam in Hunan — which failed to meet World Commission on Dams guidelines — and that would be a breach of EU law.

Roughly half of the permits issued to major carbon dioxide emitters will initially be given away for free, rather than auctioned

Not exact matches

It will see the UK pass on information about its experiences in the EU emissions trading scheme to California, which is the seventh largest economy in the world and the 12th largest emitter of carbon dioxide.

The finding suggests that an increase in hurricanes and tropical storms induced by global warming could turn forests into overall emitters of carbon dioxide, fuelling further climate change.

To address the problem, Braun and his Illinois colleagues coated tungsten emitters in a nanolayer of a ceramic material called hafnium dioxide.

For years scientists have been trying to store carbon dioxide captured from exhaust flues at power plants and other emitters, mostly by injecting it deep underground.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in turn, estimated that China would surpass the United States as the world's leading emitter of carbon dioxide by that same year.

The transition of the Widows Creek Fossil Plant near Stevenson, Ala., into Google's 14th global data center marks the end of an era for what was one of the nation's largest coal - fired power plants and one of the Tennessee Valley's largest emitters of carbon dioxide and other air pollution.

One looming concern is that once the law cements the link between carbon dioxide and health problems, big emitters may face lawsuits for their greenhouse gases.

Despite this, a UN official in China recently said he doubted that nation would become the world's top emitter of carbon dioxide by 2009.

Each permit essentially allows the license holder to release the equivalent of 1 ton of carbon dioxide and can be traded among emitters and financial institutions.

China: A November report predicts that the coal - powered, populous country will surpass the United States in 2009 as the world's biggest emitter of climate - warming carbon dioxide.

China remains the number one emitter, responsible for about one - quarter of the carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere.

India is already the world's fourth - largest emitter of carbon dioxide after China, the United States and the European Union, releasing more than 2 billion metric tons in 2013.

«Living downwind of coal - fired power plant could increase risk of low birth weight: Study found that babies born during 1990 - 2006 to mothers living as far as 20 to 30 miles away from proven emitter of sulfur dioxide emissions had 6.5 percent greater risk of low birth weight and 17.12 percent greater risk of very low birth weight.»

The United States is the second biggest emitter of carbon dioxide worldwide (and has contributed, with Europe, 52 % of the share of cumulative carbon emissions since industrialization).

Moreover, the ocean (which has been responsible for absorbing as much as 80 % of anthropogenic emissions) can become saturated, or as temperatures rise in the temperate regions or winds increase in arctic regions and stir up carbon dioxide from below, act as an emitter.

«as temperatures rise in the temperate regions or winds increase in arctic regions and stir up carbon dioxide from below, act as an emitter»

As for the ethics of all of this, Donald A. Brown of Pennsylvania State University argues that the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases are morally obligated to curb carbon dioxide and similar emissions based on the level of certainty that is already established on the impacts of those emissions — most of which will be in poorer places with small contributions to the human - caused gas buildup in the atmosphere.

But some environmentalists credited the effort for engaging China and India, countries emerging as the dominant emitters of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas linked to global warming.

Now, in a perverse twist, a new study shows that in a few years, the pests will have turned the once climate - friendly forests into net emitters of carbon dioxide.

In time, as the temperature rises, even the oceans may become net emitters as the warmer upper layers lose their capacity to hold the carbon dioxide which they have already absorbed.

Global warming is everyone's problem — but with China on course to overtake the United States by 2009 as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the report adds to the crucial call for the Middle Kingdom to put all hands on deck.

China, the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, is forecast to unseat Germany as the largest solar market in 2013, according to analysts at BNEF.

While carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and the United States has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent (compared to 2005) by 2025 as part of the Paris Agreement, other countries, such as China (the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases), are committed to releasing more carbon dioxide as they grow their economies through 2030 as part of the Paris Agreement.

The argument goes like this: solutions that might allow us to undo the mess we have made (i.e. sequester previously emitted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere) will give emitters a license to continue to make a mess, and remove any incentives to find new ways to not make a mess (i.e. carbon free energy).

In January 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new website that identifies most of the nation's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases.

However, the majority of coal - fired power stations in operation is relatively old and emits large quantities of smoke, carbon dioxide and sulfur, making China the world's single largest emitter of greenhouse gases globally.

Emitters would then be required to submit to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) one allowances for each ton of CO2, or the carbon dioxide equivalent of other greenhouse gases, they emit.

In addition to China, India also saw a similar spike of 8.7 percent in its carbon dioxide emissions, pushing the nation to become the world fourth largest carbon emitter after China, the U.S. and the EU.

In April 2015, The Chemical and Engineering News reported, «China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is claiming it significantly slowed both carbon dioxide releases and coal consumption in 2014.»

Recognizing the economic and logistical absurdity of attempting to regulate the carbon dioxide output of all of these sources, the EPA proposed a «tailoring rule» that would amend the CAA to affect only large emitters of CO2.

Global negotiators might, for instance, decide to go after the emitters of certain greenhouse gases that are more potent than carbon dioxide — gases produced particularly by companies that make chemicals.

Thanks to its fossil - fuel - fired power plants it's also the commonwealth's number one emitter of climate - disrupting carbon dioxide.

But this climate - science denial letter was different in one key respect — it was written by David Shuford, a vice president and deputy general counsel at Dominion Resources Inc., Virginia's largest energy company and the commonwealth's biggest emitter of climate - disrupting carbon dioxide.

«We [AGL] are going to be the biggest emitter of [carbon dioxide in Australia]-- that means we are going to need to be responsible, and take action.»

Agriculture has become a major emitter of greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — which are now responsible for 19 % of total global emissions.

And because mangrove forests are carbon sinks, «mangroves also emit carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and naturally, the balance is positive — unless they are heavily degraded, such as from aquaculture, and then they will become carbon emitters.»

Yes, I know that Donald Trump — a man who has dismissed global warming as «very expensive... bullshit» — was elected president of the world's second biggest emitter of carbon dioxide.

It's true that China is the leading emitter of carbon dioxide due to burning coal, and this is a huge problem for global climate.