Sentences with phrase «emitters like»

And the only way we're going to achieve large global emissions cuts is if major emitters like the USA and Australia lead the way in reducing their emissions.

Unfortunately, the fact that the world's second largest emitter and largest per - capita emitter, the United States, famously never ratified the Kyoto Protocol — the very idea of the protocol was rejected by the U.S. Senate in 1997 by a vote of 95 - 0 — and that it does not require emission reductions from developing countries including the biggest emitters like China and India, calls into question whether the protocol by itself could ever assure climate safety.

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.»

Presumably because of the implications of such a goal to the mitigation responsibilities of big emitters like China.

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.

He pleaded for continuing the Tanaloa Dialogue (Fijian for «open conversation») which includes vulnerable nations and the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters like China and India.

Second, major emitters like the United States and China are now closely cooperating in implementing climate change solutions at home and finding ways to cooperate internationally.

If even Greenpeace think China is doing enough, that is a statement because they should be even more skeptical than you of emitters like China.

Agriculture offsets are also being considered by California regulators for eligibility in the state's new regulated market, where GHG emitters like power plants and oil refineries are mandated to reduce or offset their emissions starting in 2013.

Agriculture offsets are also being considered by California regulators for eligibility in the state's new regulated market, where GHG emitters like power plants and oil refineries are mandated to reduce emissions.

Up until recently, historic greenhouse gas emitters like the U.S. were unwilling to budge on climate negotiations until other countries particularly China, who are now major greenhouse gas emitters, reduced emissions as well.

So to maintain energy balance the stratosphere must be losing energy via long wavelength radiation which means long wavelength emitters like CO2 must be radiating more than they are absorbing.

«It is also critical that the U.S. show leadership in cutting emissions if we are to compel other major emitters like China to do so,» Bledsoe said.

Not exact matches

The federal policy of regulating emitters sector by sector — «command and control,» as business likes to call the approach — also carries hidden costs.

Beyond weather worries, about 57 percent of the entrepreneurs said they'd like to see the largest carbon emitters make the biggest reductions in emissions — and bear most of the costs of such efforts.

The U.S. has said no, and so there are these kind of two parallel tracks, one negotiating at the successor of, son of Kyoto and one negotiating whatever kind of deal [would] bring in more countries, not just the U.S. but also developing countries like China and India that have become big emitters.

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

Those three groups formed a key alliance during the Durban conference that forced the United States and major emerging economies like India and China to commit to negotiating a future broad climate deal that binds all big emitters to cut carbon.

Emerging economies like Saudi Arabia and China, the world's top emitter, want rich countries to commit to doing more to cut greenhouse gas output while allowing poorer nations to burn more fossil fuels to build their economies and end poverty.

In the last two rounds of annual climate talks, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Cancún, Mexico, more than 80 countries — including major emitters not bound by the Kyoto protocol like Brazil, China, Indonesia and the US — pledged voluntary targets.

Electronics researchers would like to integrate silicon light emitters with other silicon electronics, in order to send signals between chips optically, avoiding bottlenecks caused by electrical transmission and so speed up communications.

Carbon sinks will become carbon emitters - like forests, permafrost, and the oceans.

No word on pricing either at this stage, nor specific hardware details like its internal make up, though we do know the S1 will work as a universal remote thanks to a built - in IR emitter.

1 / Infra - red emitter: this allows the Galaxy Note 10.1 to interact with legacy audio / video devices like TV, HiFi, Set - top boxes and more.

No word on pricing at this stage, nor specific hardware details like chipset, though we do know the S1 will work as a universal remote thanks to a built - in IR emitter.

Anirudh Sharma is the founder of Graviky Labs and, working with a team of fellow inventors, produced a series of gadgets that attach to pollution emitters, like tailpipes, to capture raw carbon and soot.

But getting back to that baseline question, if everyone gets to emulate the established emitters, what will the atmosphere be like?

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).

«You can not build a system that treats China like Chad, when China is the world's second largest economy, largest emitter, second largest historic emitter, [and] will be twice the size of the US in emissions in a few years,» he said.

The United States» Congress won't pass domestic legislation without key developing countries like China, which is now a major greenhouse gas emitter signing on to reduction commitments; and China sees themselves as a developing country that has acted progressively and responsibly to address climate change when it technically has no obligation to do so under the UNFCCC.

The opportunity, Navarro Llanos said, was that since countries like hers had done almost nothing to send emissions soaring, they were in a position to declare themselves «climate creditors,» owed money and technology support from the large emitters to defray the hefty costs of coping with more climate - related disasters, as well as to help them develop on a green energy path.

Unfortunately, Australia's plan, like Europe's, gave away far too much to major emitters of CO2 and does far too little to reduce emissions, aiming for a 5 percent cut in carbon by 2020, with uncertainty as to how deep the cuts may be beyond then.

This is illustrated by Lynas's reaction to the Chinese document, «China is the world's No. 1 emitter, and if China does not reduce its emissions by at least half by mid-century, then countries like the Maldives will go under.»

To resolve this question, leading environmental groups and major U.S. corporations (including some of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters) like American Electric Power and Duke Energy convened a negotiating process through Avoided Deforestation Partners, while the Waxman - Markey legislation was being drafted.

As I've said elsewhere, it is hard to believe the US Government doesn't have the professional expertise in the application of environmental law needed to write a truly effective GHG reduction strategy, including a corresponding regulatory framework which can stick like glue to its targeted emitters — assuming the regulatory framework is properly designed and structured.

That effort has been hampered because the United States never signed on to the protocol, and today's largest carbon emitter, China, like other developing nations, faces no mandatory reductions.

Many opponents of climate change policies argue that countries like the United States should not have to reduce their ghg emissions until China reduces its emissions by comparable amounts because China is now the largest emitter of all nations in terms of total tons, yet such an argument usually ignores the historical responsibility of countries like the United States which the following illustration reveals is more than twice as responsible for current elevated atmospheric ghg concentrations than China is.

Like some of its competitors, Aurora will offer power plants and other carbon emitters the opportunity to sequester their emissions by feeding carbon dioxide into ponds to stimulate the growth of algae.

Should be reasonable accurate, as they want their (un) fair share of the sales as taxes... Probably somewhat underestimated due to human nature to avoid taxes and some countries who don't like to be the biggest emitters (China...), but nevertheless about twice the increase in the atmosphere...

PS I'd still like from you the reference to that experiment you wrote about on SoD where the gas did not absorb until the emitter became warmer.

Only for the planet as a whole, instantaneously at various intervals, provided you are looking from far enough away from Earth, (like maybe from mars), to homogenize the areas that are net absorbers with the areas that are net emitters.

Coal power plants like the Shentou Number 2 plant in Shuozhou, China, contribute to that country's status as the world's top emitter of carbon.

National green leaders, who had spent the previous year insisting that progress toward capping U.S. carbon emissions would ensure the successful conclusion of a global emissions - reduction agreement in Copenhagen, pretended like they'd never suggested that the United Nation's climate change conference could ever achieve such an outcome and praised Obama for ditching the United Nations and striking out to reach an agreement — any agreement — among major emitters.

There is also has a second stream for the largest emitters, that is to say emitters that produce over 400,000 tonnes of emissions or for brand new facilities like new near zero or net zero manufacturing processes or Carbon Capture and Utilization projects.

What is strange is that the mainstream media and leading climate action proponents like Merkel all pretend that Germany is a responsible leader in cutting back CO2 emissions, and even claim that big emitters, like China and India, are all onboard in curbing CO2 emissions, and that is only the USA that is the big, rogue CO2 sinner.

Neeley and Murray, like many others, likewise argue that these lawsuits are inappropriate because «climate change is the result of actions of millions of emitters.»

However the lack of emissions reductions commitments from the U.S. for the past few years puts decisions on finance into question, since many emerging economies like China and India who have only recently become high carbon emitting countries are loath to act until historical emitters, like the U.S., make a move.

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.

Washington state, like the entire West Coast, is a leader on forward - thinking climate policy with legislative targets for emission reductions, a greenhouse gas inventory of major emitters, and a Clean Air Rule adopted by the Inslee Administration.

Similarly, it would be quite interesting to get more information from countries like Nigeria, Iran, Venezuela, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Thailand, who are all part of the biggest emitters.