Sentences with phrase «emitter in»

According to Greenpeace, Turkey is the 23rd - largest carbon emitter in the world.

New York University, for example, may rank as a big emitter in New York, but a year ago it opened a co-generation facility that makes electricity and uses the waste heat to heat and cool buildings, thus doing far more work per pound of carbon dioxide emitted than most other sources.

Meanwhile, the Paris Agreement went into force on November 4th, far sooner than anyone ever expected, signaling a new era of international climate action — but, just a few days later, the United States, the second - largest emitter in the world, elected a new president who has called global warming a hoax and pledged to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement as soon as possible.

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.

US is the second largest emitter in the word (next to China) and one of the countries with the largest emission per capita (US: 16.2, China: 6.5, EU: 7.6 tonneCO2 / capita).

The earth is almost a perfect blackbody emitter in the mid & far - IR and since Kirchkoff's Law imply that the emissivity and absorptivity must be equal at each wavelength, the means that essentially all of the radiation that is incident on these objects is absorbed.

China is expected to overtake the United States to become the world's biggest emitter in 2007, while India becomes the third - biggest emitter by around 2015.

The transportation sector is the largest emitter in the Ontario, followed by industrials such as cement and chemical manufacturers.

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.

The 26 companies that have already had their targets approved by the initiative represent 269 million metric tonnes of CO2e emissions, which is roughly comparable to the total annual emissions of Egypt — the 30th largest emitter in the world.

It has the largest portfolio of renewable developments in Australia, and a large pipeline of projects, even though it also owns Loy Yang A, the largest emitter in the country.

The third biggest greenhouse gas emitter in Australia's power sector also recognises the reality of climate change: GDF SUEZ reaffirms its commitment to combatting climate change at the Climate Summit in New - York.

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.

Largely dependent on fossil fuels, Mexico is approximately the 11th highest greenhouse gas emitter in 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.

The fifth - largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, the country in recent years has overtaken Brazil as the No. 1 deforesting nation.

The researchers identified China as the world's top CO2 emitter in 2014, responsible for 27 percent of global emissions, followed by the United States (15.5 percent), the European Union (9.5 percent) and India (7.2 percent).

Given the country's status of being the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, Greenpeace says, a tiny drop in China's carbon emissions could translate into a big change in the international stage.

China's mines, a huge emitter In 2010, according to Banks, China mined 3 billion metric tons of coal, compared to 800 million in the United States.

But the number one emitter in the world has never mentioned a step like this before in public.

China is the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter in part because it is the world's greatest burner of coal for electricity.

The $ 100 battery - powered SteriPen Journey allows you to purify two pints of water at a time in just 90 seconds by immersing a handheld ultraviolet light emitter in a bottle or other container.

If food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world,» said Dr. Andrew Steer, President and CEO, World Resources Institute.

If food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world,» said Dr. Andrew Steer, President and CEO, World Resources Institute.

«If food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third - largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world,» said Dr. Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the World Resources Institute.

If food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world.

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

«In quantum optics, the lack of phase advance would allow quantum emitters in a zero - index cavity or waveguide to emit photons which are always in phase with one another,» said Philip Munoz, a graduate student in the Mazur lab and co-author on the paper.

«Indonesia is one of the major emitters in the world, and this year it's likely to be even more than usual,» because of the raging fires burning carbon - rich peat lands.

Up to now, materials that could act as single photon emitters in these wavelengths had to be cooled to liquid helium temperatures, rendering them much less useful for ultimate applications or scientific purposes,» he said.

(Two weeks later, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that the oil and gas industries were the largest emitters in the U.S., accounting for one - third of methane emissions.)

«There are very few classes of coherent emitters in the universe.

South Africa is, per capita, one of the 20 highest carbon emitters in the world.

The big emitters in Durban, so the BBC tells me, aren't even thinking of a DEAL before 2015, far less emissions peaking.

Suzuki has already confirmed that the iV - 4 will be light - weight, be among the lowest CO2 emitters in its class and feature Suzuki's next - generation Allgrip four - wheel - drive system.

Two ways of looking at the biggest CO2 emitters in the world http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/08/daily-chart-down-under-and-dirty

What has happened to emitters in LBP2?

V. Expand bilateral engagement: Engaging more than 50 partner countries on clean energy, sustainable landscapes, and adaptation, including the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the developing world.

As one of the highest per capita greenhouse emitters in the world we serve as a model for countries wishing to resist action on climate change.

Last October, a group of powerful Republican and Democrat senators introduced the McCain - Lieberman Bill to the US Senate (as an amendment to the Climate Stewardship Act) that would have required major emitters in the USA to adhere to mandatory, economy - wide emission caps.

* Pledges for emissions cuts by 2020 that were made by the world's biggest emitters in 2010 don't correspond to the «lowest cost» emissions reduction trajectory and would lead to greenhouse gas concentrations of as much as 650 ppm by 2100.

«As one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the Australian energy sector, TRUenergy faces a more difficult challenge than most to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

In Ontario, analysis supporting the cap and trade program found that the average cost impact on the large trade - exposed emitters in 2020, with a $ 20 carbon price, was a reduction in profits of approximately 1.5 per cent or equal to 0.12 per cent of sales.

As a result, a problem created largely by developed countries may lead to worsening human health problems in countries that are minor causes of climate change when ODA flows are applied to ghg emissions projects which largely benefit emitters in developed countries.

• Cap and trade regimes keep high - cost emitters in the political game because they can reduce their emissions at low cost and thereby help minimize political opposition for climate change legislation.

They end modestly, noting that «a significant number of high emitters can now be found in emerging countries,» that since Kyoto, «inequalities increased between the bottom of the CO2e emissions pyramid and the middle, and were reduced between the middle and the top,» and that it is thus commendable that «high emitters in China, India or Brazil» have stepped up on the mitigation front.

That declaration called on the federal government to embrace direct payments from emitters in the developed world to REDD projects in Brazil.

BP, Exxon and Chevron were among the top emitters in a new study that looks at historical emissions and climate change impacts, including sea level rise.

Sponsors include some of the largest carbon emitters in the world: EDF Energy, Engie (which accounts for nearly half of France's annual carbon output), Air France (which has opposed emissions reductions in the aviation sector), and BNP Paribas (one of the top ten global coal lending banks during 2005 - 2013).

Obama singled out China, stating during the speech: «Just a few minutes ago, I met with Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, and reiterated my belief that, as the two largest economies and emitters in the world, we have a special responsibility to lead.