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emitter is something that releases or gives out something, such as light, sound, or particles. It is like a source that sends out or emits energy or information.
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One report concluded that China's total energy use now tops that of the United States, just a couple of years behind its rise to the top position on lists of
emitters of carbon dioxide.
Overwhelming disapproval was launched at the second
largest emitter of greenhouse gases, with claims that it was acting fecklessly rejecting what many nations see as necessary progression towards a greener planet.
If food waste was a country it would be the third
biggest emitter of greenhouse gases globally after China and the US.
«The president is under increasing pressure to gain emissions reductions from China and other
major emitters in order to justify US domestic mitigation policy.
The Copenhagen Accord was not forged among our closest allies in the developed world; it was the product of cooperation between the US and a group of the largest
carbon emitters in the developing world.
These are four of the top ten economies and greenhouse
gas emitters of the world.
Having the world's largest coal company join the world's largest CO2
emitter in such a project is certainly a significant, if very preliminary, step in testing whether the world can have its coal and its climate too.
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.
The oil sand industry is one of the major
GHG emitters in Canada and the entire process approximately doubles to triples the amount of CO2 released per barrel of petroleum used compared to conventional extraction.
That's according to AFTVNews, which is also stating that the flagship model will have a cube shape and offer an
IR emitter for control over your TV and any A / V equipment you may have in your home theater system.
Some developing countries have been asking for a separate framework that would allow them to seek compensation from the biggest
emitters for loss of property, land, and other damages associated with global warming.
The bill will preempt both the states» and EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, as long
as emitters comply with the standards outlined in the measure.
That declaration called on the federal government to embrace direct payments
from emitters in the developed world to REDD projects in Brazil.
LEDs that generate blue light can be converted into white -
light emitters by coating them with various luminescent ceramics.
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.
Australia is said to working behind - the - scenes on the legal framework for a new climate treaty and on methods to finance developing countries» efforts to adapt to climate change and the technology to develop in a low carbon way.Rudd is working on getting U.S. and China, the
leading emitters of greenhouse gases, to agree on a deal before talks begin in Copenhagen.
The major
industrial emitters at refineries, cement plants, and steel mills could be required (or induced through taxation) to capture their CO2 emissions or to convert part of their processes to run on power cells and clean electricity.
In fact, if food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third - largest greenhouse gas
emitter on the planet after China and the United States.
The other, AFTVNews claimed, would be an even pricier set - top box with a microphone array for hands - free voice controls and
infrared emitters for controlling TV volume.
To address this threat to competitiveness, the Leach panel recommended that some of the revenues collected through the carbon tax — at least $ 2.5 billion, by some estimates — be returned to big
emitters by way of a subsidy tied to how much they produce, whether it's barrels of oil or kilowatts of electricity or some other sector - specific output.
Booker contends that large
emitters like China have «no intention of halting the rise in its «carbon emissions» at all,» making it a «meaningless -LSB-...] exercise.»
California has led the effort to introduce cross-border cap and trade on large industrial
emitters with several other states and with four provinces in Canada.
The move comes after about 190 nations, including some the world's biggest greenhouse gas
emitters such as the US and China, agreed on a deal in Durban to develop a global pact for reducing emissions by 2015.
The Chinese, once you account for their exports, are actually average per -
capita emitters of CO2.
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.
Dr Marek Potemski and co-workers working at CNRS (France) in collaboration with researchers at the University of Warsaw (Poland) discovered stable
quantum emitters at the edges of WSe2 monolayers, displaying highly localised photoluminescence with single - photon emission characteristics.
Except for the fact that, as CO2 is a
good emitter as well as an absorber, the cotton in this case is actually also helping to cool the surface.
A new snapshot of U.S. methane emissions in 2004 shows livestock — primarily cattle and pigs — were the country's worst gas
emitters at the time.
U.S. negotiators seek an agreement that brings all the world's major
emitters into a single treaty.
Mexico, the fifth - largest
methane emitter in the world in 2015, published regulations in 2016 for methane emissions in its upstream oil and gas operations, and addressed methane in recently published guidelines for unconventional oil and gas development.
The authors say: «Without accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from land use change, the carbon footprint of food produced and not eaten is estimated at 3.3 Gigatonnes [billion tonnes] of CO2 equivalent: as such, food wastage ranks as the third top
emitter after the USA and China.
This cross-section micrographs of a tungsten
thermal emitter used in the experiment.
This will leave room for exceptions that meet particularly acute energy access challenges for which countries request financing for fossil fuel generation projects, particularly if these countries are very
low emitters with low projected growth in energy demand.
As the world's largest
historic emitter of carbon pollution, we should be supporting renewables across the U.S. and around the world.»
While China and the U.S. get most of the attention, India - where 300 million people still live without electricity - is the globe's third
greatest emitter of greenhouse gases, and one of the globe's fastest - growing coal consumers.
The typical lamp will emit about 250 watts, which tend to be far higher than far infrared
heat emitters.
A report by an environmental group named Power Plant Scherer in Juliette, Ga., (seen here in 2007) the biggest
single emitter of greenhouse gases among all US power plants.
Chen said despite years of preparations, many
regulated emitters still couldn't understand carbon trading; some even hung certification of their allocated allowances on the office wall because they thought it was an honor from the local government, signed by the Shenzhen mayor.
The cap will decline every three years through 2035, gradually covering
more emitters.
India has so far resisted pressure to commit to any major emissions cuts despite a pact last year between the two top
global emitters, China and the United States.
Bjorn's other missteps include assuming that Europe will reverse its decades - long trend of increasing renewables and efficiency in 2030, ignoring the pledges of developing nations as well as
significant emitters like Canada, Australia Japan and Mexico, and finally, underestimating those pledges he does see fit to include.