Sentences with phrase «emissions from wealthy countries»
But late Tuesday, Bali time, the United States bluntly refused to consider language — even in the nonbinding preamble — that included any specific numbers for how much overall emissions from wealthy countries would need to be cut to have a chance of avoiding the worst climate dangers.
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We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.
«The average per capita resource use in wealthy countries is 5 to 10 times higher than in developing countries, and the developed countries are responsible for over three quarters of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions from 1850 to 2000.»
Indonesia is crafting policies — in part with external help from Norway and other wealthy countries — to cut its total emissions, mainly by slowing deforestation.
She added that China is moving away from the old argument that it has no responsibility to act on emissions yet because, like India and other large emerging industrial powers, it still has per - capita emissions many times lower than those in wealthy countries.
Just three years after the world's nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, a push was initiated to move from that agreement's aspirational goals for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases to hard targets and timetables for wealthier countries.
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Most travel - related carbon emissions could be attributed to vacationers from wealthy countries traveling to other wealthy countries.
Investments from wealthy countries have the potential to slash emissions at a «bargain» price, the researchers found.
Fast - developing countries such as China promised to limit emissions as a share of their growing economies, while wealthy nations such as the United States pledged reductions from historic levels.
Funding mechanisms, by which wealthy countries pay developing countries to maintain their forest cover, such as REDD + (short for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries), could also give donors the «soft power» to push for improved governance of industrial agriculture, he said.