Sentences with phrase «emitting countries like»

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For those countries, Ummel said, emissions information is based on both back - channel information gathering and modeling to predict the amount a particular plant would likely emit based on its size and other factors like the type of coal it uses.

And where your assignment was to go from 36 billion tons a year to essentially zero, you know, now you can have a footnote and say, «Okay, poor countries are still allowed to emit» and the livestock land use era deserves its own footnote because, you know, short of something like artificial meat, which is a whole other topic, we actually don't have — mostly we talk about energy: household, factory, office, transport.

It's a staggering amount of carbon, but so far less than the greenhouse gases emitted by countries like the United States or China.

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.

If at Bali, we make mandatory cap, this will let all countries know how cub greenhouse gas worth, they will think out many methods to escape emit more greenhouse gas, because reducng greenhouse gas like saving money.

Countries set high caps to win the game, because setting a high cap (just like emitting CO2) helps them and mainly hurts everyone else.

This question, following up on question one is designed to expose the ethical duty of high - emitting developed countries like the United States to refrain from further delay on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertainty given that the nation's non-action on climate change is already responsible for putting the international community in great danger from climate change.

Yet, since the world averages 6.5 CO2 tons of per capita emissions while countries like the United States are emitting 19 tons per capita, and the world must reduce per capita emissions to perhaps less than 2.0 tons per capita to prevent dangerous climate change, it is very unlikely that many groups or people in developed countries can make a respectable argument that they are already below their fair share of safe global emissions.

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.

It basically argued that foreign trade was fine, but that you should measure goods by a combination of how much co2 they emit in shipping, versus how much economic benefit they brought to the producer countries — high value, non-perishable goods like wine, craft items etc that could be shipped by sea came out very well.

As Carnegie's grantees, Caldeira and Persad aim to help countries optimize how they meet their commitments under the Paris Agreement by focusing on the short - lived air pollutants, like soot, which are co-emitted by many of the same processes that emit the longer - lived carbon dioxide that is the main focus of most countries» Paris commitments.

Even though they use trucks that run on petroleum, countries like Thailand and Myanmar still emit far less CO2 per person than the US, Canada, Australia, Europe do.