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Nine of the top 10 carbon dioxide emitting countries in 2010 have more than enough offshore wind energy potential to meet all their current electricity needs.

It is not enough for the United States to argue that continuing emissions trends in low - emitting countries will contribute to climate change harms without considering what distributive justice would require of low - emitting countries in regard to future emissions.

Most buyers of offsets are companies headquartered in high - emitting countries in North America and Europe that finance emissions reductions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

That article included a chart that said, «If food wastage were a country, it would be the third largest emitting country in the world.»

Not exact matches

With more than 225 employees in three countries, Lumenpulse works with architects, electrical engineers and lighting designers to develop specification light - emitting diode, or LED, lighting for commercial, institutional and urban applications.

In such a system, imports from countries that do not price carbon emissions would be subject to a tariff equivalent to the price imposed on the carbon content of such goods made in Canada, counting the carbon emitted to produce goods and to transport them herIn such a system, imports from countries that do not price carbon emissions would be subject to a tariff equivalent to the price imposed on the carbon content of such goods made in Canada, counting the carbon emitted to produce goods and to transport them herin Canada, counting the carbon emitted to produce goods and to transport them here.

To put this in perspective, that's almost as much carbon as our entire country emitted that year (692 Mt C02e).

An article in Scientific American last year titled «Inside a Western Town That Refuses to Quit Coal» said the plant emits nearly 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, earning a spot among the top 20 carbon - producing power plants in the country.

«It is not clear that this program has a whole lot of bite for a lot of very high carbon emitting states in the rust belt area, and by contrast it appears that it has a much heavier impact along the southern tier of the country including the south - east and Texas.»

In a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear forcIn a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear forcin the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear forcin competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force.

By following carbon emissions in more than 100 countries and 57 industrial sectors — from the extraction of the fuels to the energy inputs in creating goods and services to delivery to the final consumer — he and his colleagues uncovered a more complete story of who emits the world's greenhouse gases, and at which point in the supply chain.

Ever since Japan's battered Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex began emitting radiation in March, calls to abandon nuclear power have risen in the U.S. and Germany, among other countries.

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.

In 2005, residents of Portland, Oregon — where regulations encourage infill development — emitted 35 percent less carbon dioxide than the average resident of the country's 100 largest metropolitan areas.

For example, more light is emitted by affluent regions in Albania than by similar regions in Liberia, which means that differences between countries have to be taken into account.

These reservoirs are more than enough for the 3.2 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted every year by the roughly 4,600 large industrial sources in the country.

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.

In sum: The U.S. emits more greenhouse gases from cars than most countries do from all pollution sources.

Todd Stern now thinks the most effective way forward to reining in climate change is via a smaller group of major carbon - emitting countries

And the bulk of these deaths would occur in Asian countries such as India and China, the researchers concluded, where households often use soot - emitting stoves and furnaces powered by wood.

That includes countries in sub-Saharan Africa that currently don't emit much, because their economies and emissions are likely to grow.

Such climate changing pollution continues to increase — in 2010, the world emitted some 49 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, thanks largely to increased coal burning in countries such as China.

According to the U.N. Environment Programme, if countries intend to avert catastrophic warming, they need to reduce annual emissions to an average 40 gigatons by 2025 from the 50 gigatons emitted in 2010.

Matthias Jonas at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, has calculated that countries can only report their emissions to within 5 to 10 per cent of what they actually emitted (Climatic Change, DOI: 10.1007 / s10584 -010-9914-6).

Buildings account for about two - fifths of the energy we use and are responsible for about two - fifths of the carbon emitted in this country.

Another useful data source is the Global Carbon Project, which contains data on national emissions emitted within each country, as well as emissions embedded in imported goods.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

However, the V40 Cross Country D2 hits back by emitting just 99g / km of CO2, which puts it in the 13 % band for company car tax and means entry to the London Congestion Charge zone is free.»

Adding moral complexity to this fact are the rising standards of living in developing countries, which are largely attributable to the availability and exploitation of cheap, CO2 emitting sources of power like coal.

It is a long story, but I now believe that focus on national responsibility has been a diversion — taking pressure off of high - emitting individuals in both developed and developing countries.

Basically the argument is that we who live in the industrialized countries that emitted most of the carbon that created the climate crisis have to acknowledge our historical responsibility, first by leading the way on emission reductions, then by offering assistance to countries that did little or nothing to cause the crisis but are suffering the worst effects.

Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gases have been, and continue to be, emitted by the massive fossil fuel consumption of a tiny percentage of the Earth's human population, most of them in countries with low rates of population growth — and that the overwhelming majority of human beings on the Earth, particularly those in countries with relatively high rates of population growth, generate only a small amount of greenhouse gases.

Altogether, credits are up for grabs equaling the 9.5 million tons of carbon dioxide that analysts have calculated will not be emitted because of a new initiative to protect a sprawling, biologically bountiful region in the country's northeast, called Makira.

International equity — letting poor countries emit more carbon than rich countries from here on out — demands that the United States, Europe, and other historically high emitting countries should position themselves for at least 80 percent reduction in emissions by 2030.

Popular denim brands, including Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Guess, Express, American Eagle Outfitters, Wrangler and Lee are hiding as much as 90 percent of the climate pollution they generate by outsourcing production to contractors in developing countries, and then avoiding responsibility for the carbon pollution emitted by manufacturing their products.

India and other developing countries quite rightly claim they need and deserve money, plainly speaking, both to switch to lower - carbon energy systems and to brace themselves for the impacts that are already locked in by past carbon emitted by richer nations.

In this world, when the price is lowered to $ 10, every country emits more and they each cause $ 10 trillion in damagIn this world, when the price is lowered to $ 10, every country emits more and they each cause $ 10 trillion in damagin damage.

Continuing to emit greenhouse gasses at present levels until the end of the century will almost certainly cause massive harm to those living in the United States and other rich countries.

There is a generational divide in major emitting countries over who should bear the greatest burden in curtailing greenhouse gases.

The industrialised countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, together with the non-ratifying USA emitted approximately 7.5 % less CO2 in 2010 than in 1990 and collectively remain on target to meet the original Kyoto Protocol objective of a 5.2 % reduction.

Public willingness to support limitations on emissions exceeds the intensity of people's climate concern in a number of other major carbon - emitting countries.

In 2014, the sector emitted more CO2 into the atmosphere than the combined emissions of the 129 lowest emitting countries.

They include, among many others, principles on what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, who is responsible for reasonable adaptation needs of those people at greatest risk from climate damages in poor nations that have done little to cause climate change, should high - emitting nations help poor nations obtain climate friendly energy technologies, and what responsibilities should high - emitting nations have for refugees who must flee their country because climate change has made their nations uninhabitable?

Targets and timetables are an emissions cap on the total amount of heat - trapping gas emissions that can be emitted by a country or region in a given time period.

Sets forth U.S. negotiating objectives with respect to multilateral environmental negotiations, including reaching an internationally binding agreement in which all major GHG - emitting countries contribute equitably to the reduction of global GHG emissions.

Trump's campaign has promised to renegotiate the world's second biggest carbon - emitting country's role in a United Nations - led global agreement which many view as a...

The use of coal as a fuel has now surpassed oil and developing countries now emit more greenhouse gases than developed countries — with a quarter of their growth in emissions accounted for by increased trade with the West.

The vast improvement of billions of people worldwide over the last 60 - 70 years has come about because of the developments in the «high - emitting» countries since the Industrial Revolution, particularly through the dissemination of innovations and trade and the provision of markets.

Companies can also receive credit for conservation projects in the least - developed, relatively low - emitting countries while they prepare their national plans.

• Approaches that account for the global dimensions of achieving and maintaining sustainable levels of atmospheric CO2 and encourage cooperative action by all countries, including the U.S. and large emitting nations in the developing world, to implement CO2 emission reduction strategies.