Sentences with phrase «emissions in developed countries»

On this basis, the projected emissions of energy - related CO2 in 2030 are 40 — 110 % higher than in 2000 (with two thirds to three quarters of this increase originating in non-Annex I countries), although per capita emissions in developed countries will remain substantially higher.

In the 2000s, production - based CO2 emissions in developed countries declined while their carbon footprints grew.

But higher energy prices helped slow that advance, and emissions in developed countries began to decline in 2007 and are now 8 % below the 2007 peak.

While Kyoto succeeded in reducing emissions in some developed countries, it only had binding targets for a few countries.

Some of them, including Italy and Spain, will only be able to do so by buying credits to offset their own emissions, for example by investing in projects that reduce carbon emissions in developing countries.

If they exceed the cap, they can purchase credits generated by projects to reduce emissions in developing countries.

This not only reduces emissions in the developing country but also increases technology transfer and creates local employment opportunities.

«(2) deforestation is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries, amounting to roughly 20 percent of overall emissions globally;

At the same time, the unrelenting rise in greenhouse - gas emissions in developing countries is propelled by an unbending reality identified way back in 2005 by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, when he said, «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

But if rich nations all agree that capping emissions in developing countries is not yet expected because they haven't reached our level of emissions, doesn't that null and void the whole point of cutting emissions?

While particulate emissions over the Western world decreased since the mid-1970's, the emissions in developing countries increased rapidely in the past halve century.

CO2 emissions in developing countries surpassed those from industrial countries in 2005 and have since continued to soar.

I forget if it was the IPCC third or fourth assessment, but there was mention that even a few percent penetration of bicycle travel can make fairly substantial reductions in GHG emissions in a developed country.

Actions to significantly reduce GHG emissions in developing countries would involve dramatically cutting back the use of coal, the source of 71 percent of India's electricity and 81 percent of China's.

«(2) deforestation is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries, amounting to roughly 20 percent of overall emissions globally;

A targeted fund to address non-CO2 industrial greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries instead of relying on an expensive offset mechanism?

basically, controlling the growth of emissions in developing countries by addressing poverty and over population and doing that by addressing inequalities between the sexes which are noxious regardless of the temperature of the planet.

In my previous article, I showed that the world's carbon dioxide emissions had historically come from the world's developed countries (as defined by membership in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), but since 2005 emissions in developing countries have outstripped those in developed countries.

These innovative instruments seek to support a variety of market - based mechanisms that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries.

In fact, emissions in developing countries have grown far too rapidly to offset the modest declines in developed countries:

In fact there are very likely to be groups and individuals exceeding their fair share of safe global emission in developing countries because wealth differences in many developing countries are great and there are wealthy and middle classes in most countries even in countries where the vast majority of the people are very poor.

Two thirds to three quarters of the increase in CO2 emissions are projected to come from developing countries, although the average per capita CO2 emissions in developing country regions will remain substantially lower (2.8 — 5.1 tCO2 per capita) than those in developed country regions (9.6 — 15.1 tCO2 per capita).

The Protocol enables industrialized countries with greenhouse gas reduction commitments to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries, as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own countries.

Under what is known as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, industrialised countries can support projects that decrease emissions in developing countries and then use the resulting emission reduction credits towards their own reduction targets.

Not exact matches

That's because the growth in emissions from developing countries, including China and India, will simply dwarf any U.S. action, making their commitments under the agreement far more important.

UNFCCC meetings in Asia Pacific region and developing countries have recently explored new market approaches towards tackling emissions

Reports over China's reluctance to agree on specific emissions targets or worries over enforcement in developing countries may be vital, but how does it affect «me» in the UK?

Large scale participation prevailed as a primary goal when talks began on a climate convention in 1991, despite most developing countries having negligible greenhouse gas emissions.

That pact was abandoned by the U.S. Senate because it imposed emissions cuts on wealthy countries but let developing nations — including China — off the hook by allowing them to make voluntary cuts in exchange for financial support.

Industrialized nations took binding commitments, while developing countries could not even volunteer to do so — an architecture that would survive until last month, when the 195 nations in Paris agreed to an accord that calls for all nations to commit to emissions cuts regardless of their level of development.

However, for the period 2010 - 2012, more than half of China's export emissions resulted from the growth in foreign trade to developing countries.

The EPA partly arrived at the lower figure by excluding the cost of U.S. emissions on other countries, yet as the study shows, effects in developing countries have clear spillovers on developed countries.

So companies in the developed world have an annual limit on the level of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated by the emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.

But a number of key issues related to the U.N. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries — also known as REDD — are still leading to acrimony and may get table and remain unresolved when political leaders arrive in Copenhagen next week to finalize a general framework.

Furthermore, PES is going to play an even bigger role as the international community debates schemes to pay countries for the carbon stored by avoiding deforestation, an approach taken by the U.N. Development Programme called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Cocountries for the carbon stored by avoiding deforestation, an approach taken by the U.N. Development Programme called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing CountriesCountries).

Prof Guan said: «In recent years, many researchers have proposed that consumption - based accounting be applied to re-allocate the responsibilities of mitigating climate change because of the large net emission flows from developing countries to developed countries.

The authors call for more attention to be paid to emissions resulting from increasing trade between developing countries, largely due to the rapid development in south - south trade — trade with and among developing countries — which has seen the share of developing economies in international trade grow.

The authors argue that the recent trajectory implies that the destinations of China's foreign export emissions would further shift from developed countries to developing countries because of its changing role in global trade.

China has a dominant contribution to these net emission flows, but emissions embodied in its exports to developed countries have declined.

So, additional preventive measures need to be considered in addition to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, to help coastal regions especially in transition and developing countries to adapt and to limit damage costs.»

Last month's Copenhagen conference was the first time in the 17 - year history of U.N. climate conferences that developing and industrialized countries all agreed to take responsibility for emissions, according to a statement issued by the Bulletin.

Presently, announced commitments for CO2 - emission cuts from the various nations of the globe, particularly those form the developed countries grouped in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are more likely to deliver greenhouse gas concentrations of 550 ppm, says IEA executive director, Nobuo Tanaka.

The third is how much cash the rich world will put into a fund to help developing countries adapt to climate change and invest in cutting their own emissions.

Speaking at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., Clinton proposed an international «emissions trading system» that would allow companies in developing countries to buy the right to pollute from companies with cleaner technologies.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

Developed countries got some of the flexibility they wanted: For instance, they can purchase emission credits from countries able to cut emissions beyond their required amount, or receive credit for emission reductions achieved through a project like a hydroelectric dam in a developing country.

While the benefit of conserving a tree is the same regardless of the location, paying individuals to conserve forests in developing countries like Uganda is less expensive, making it cheaper to reduce overall emissions.

Today, with deforestation accounting for a substantial portion of human - induced carbon emissions, the researchers describe the payment program they studied as «a cost - effective way to avert deforestation in developing countries — and hence a powerful tool to mitigate climate change.»

Britain, said Hogg, would participate in the forth - coming negotiations on new commitments and it has agreed that all developed countries should be asked to commit themselves to achieving a target for total greenhouse gas emissions of between 5 and 10 per cent below 1990 levels by the year 2010.