Sentences with phrase «emitters of»

Political challenges One of the first things that come up when China and climate change are mentioned together is that the richest countries, historically and today, are by far the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases per head of population, and have the responsibility to act first.

President Barack Obama said that China and the U.S. must lead the way for climate mitigation, as the two largest economies — and the two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases — in the world.

The data presented concerns the emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use, including which are the largets emitters of greenhouse gases, by activity or region.

China and the U.S. are the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG) in absolute terms on annual basis, both are heavily reliant coal for power and imported petroleum for transportation fuel and other non-transportation uses and both have had (and continue) to build continental - wide energy infrastructure to support a large population.

It would promote higher utilization of power plants that are low emitters of carbon, and encourage low - carbon fuel choices for the future.»

From there, several groups and individuals of the Church joined the global movement to fight the major emitters of greenhouse gases: fossil fuels.

The utilities — American Electric Power, Tennessee Valley Authority, Duke Energy, Southern Company, Xcel Energy, Inc., and Cinergy Corporation — are the nation's largest emitters of CO2 (or among the largest).

The United Nations has started a campaign to remind everyone, especially corporates and large emitters of the pressing need to go Climate Neutral Now.

That's not to mention that the world's efforts to curb climate emissions have been drastically impinged by President Donald Trump's controversial decision to withdraw the U.S. — one of the planet's largest single emitters of greenhouse gases — from the Paris agreement.

Poland is not among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases globally (its share is just 1 %), but its economy is among the least carbon - efficient in the EU.

The Big 10 food and beverage companies — Associated British Foods (ABF), Coca - Cola, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg, Mars, Mondelez International, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever — are significant emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs) across their global operations.If together they were a single country, these 10 famous companies would be the 25th most polluting country in the world.

The US has historically been one of the major emitters of greenhouse gases (although China is usurping that dubious honor), so the EIA annual emissions tally is keenly watched.

Sen. CHUCK HAGEL (R - NE): It is the developing nations that will be the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the next 25 years.

Most of the report consists of a series of analyses of 12 countries that are major emitters of greenhouse gases (Australia, Canada, China, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States).

It's no secret that oil majors are among the biggest corporate emitters of pollution.

Under the European emissions trading system (ETS), the 12,000 largest emitters of greenhouse gases must surrender emission allowances in line with their emissions to their regulators on a yearly basis.

Canada, one of the largest per - capita emitters of climate pollution in the world, from the looks of it is doing nothing more than their newfound friends down under who are lounging around in t - shirts, gorging on snacks.

China, the U.S., the European Union, India, Russia, and Japan are still the world's largest emitters of CO2, accounting for 51 percent of the world's population and 68 percent of total global CO2 emissions.

This is a worry — when the Kyoto Protocol was first talked about, the countries of the develop ^ ed ^ world were overwhelmingly the highest emitters of CO2.

Yesterday was a big day for renewable energy and climate change, as the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases paved the path of cooperation with regard to scaling renewable power.

In fact, it is popular wisdom, that the US and China are the big elephants in the room, or in other words, the world's biggest emitters of CO2.

China and the United States, the two biggest emitters of the carbon pollution that has brought global warming to a crisis point, formally ratified the Paris climate agreement on Saturday.

As the two largest current global emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs), it is imperative that the United States and China work together to support effective domestic energy and climate change programs and an effective international climate regime.

He suggested, as the full report does, that the U.S. should work with key international partners, including China, one of the leading emitters of atmospheric carbon.

Over the weekend, speaking on the eve of the G20 summit in Hangzhou, history was made as President Obama and Chinese President, Xi Jinping, announced that the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases would formally ratify the Paris agreement on climate change.

(1) the United States, the People's Republic of China, and the Republic of India are some of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases;

But it must include both China and the United States, the two largest emitters of carbon dioxide.

It might even be led by the world's two largest emitters of CO2 — the United States and China.

There is, of course, nothing wrong with claims that some climate change policies will produce jobs, but such assertions should also say that emissions should be reduced because high - emitters of ghgs have duties and obligations to do so.

Painter looked at reporting on the most popular television stations in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa — countries which are all among the top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide — and eight international 24 - hour news channels.

Wil Burns: I started off working on the impacts of climate change on small island states, specifically how small island states might either adapt to climate change or how they might use legal mechanisms to try to «press» the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to reduce their emissions.

The clock is ticking for the United States — still one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world — to make good on our promise to reduce our contribution to global climate change.

The country is among the world's top five emitters of carbon dioxide when emissions from land use are included — roughly sixty percent of its emissions result from deforestation.

«The Amazon, if it were a country, would be in the top seven emitters of greenhouse gases in the world,» Carter said.

The agency is targeting power plants — the largest stationary emitters of greenhouse gases — as well as the nation's aging infrastructure.

He confirmed that China (and India) would be the primary CO2 emitters of the 21st century, that they «have a right» to develop their economies even if this means emitting more CO2 and that any CO2 curtailment activities made by the already industrialized nations of North America, Europe plus Japan will be futile unless China and India join in.

It is a recent discovery that the oceans can act for decades at a time as net absorbers OR net emitters of previously accumulated solar energy on a vast and highly variable scale yet AGW proponents still ignore the overwhelming evidence because to acknowledge it would destroy years of fond memories of a publicly funded gold rush encouraged by their fanciful claims to understand climate and be in a position to influence it.

Over the longer term the sun varies (there is uncertainty as to how much) and in the medium term the oceans vary much more than we previously thought possible in that they can act as net absorbers or net emitters of previously acquired solar energy for decades at a time.

Cap and trade regimes can be understood to give emitters of ghgs a property right to emit at a level consistent with their allocation.

You should be electrifying them with methane generators and windmills — and the polluters, the emitters of carbon, ought to be paying for them.

Few studies have placed reservoir GHG emissions into such a context, but those that have find that reservoirs result in a net carbon footprint that exceeds that of the preflooded landscape and that they are net emitters of CO2 equivalents (Jacinthe et al. 2012, Teodoru et al. 2012, Faria et al. 2015).

Therefore emitters of carbon can finance inexpensive projects to reduce carbon emissions and apply reductions achieved by these projects against their reduction obligations and in so doing reduce ghg emissions that cause climate change.

A bigger concern might be the presence of airborne particulates from coal - fired power plants, which are the U.S.'s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide.

Post-glacial lakes such as these in Stordalen, northern Sweden, are significant emitters of methane.

Power plants are the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the U.S., followed by petroleum refineries.

Duke Energy is among the biggest electric power companies in the United States and one of the largest emitters of greenhouse - gas emissions in the world.

-- The Administrator may require producers, importers, distributors, users, or emitters of the gas to provide information on the contribution of the gas to global warming over 100 years compared to carbon dioxide.

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.

The conference comes on the heels of recent optimism about the possibility of a global deal, thanks to a November agreement on emissions reductions by the U.S. and China, the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases.

China and the US, the world's largest emitters of carbon, both pumped out less.