Sentences with phrase «emitting nations»

Without radical policy change in the major emitting nations, this future will be locked in over the next five years because the infrastructure will have been built.

The U.S. and China are the top greenhouse gas emitting nations in the world.

The Minister noted that Pakistan is one of the lowest emitting nations in the world, yet is in the top 10 nations to be worst - affected by climate change.

Not to mention the fact that the governments of China and India, the most important emitting nations of the 21st century, continue to reiterate in formal, public statements that they have no intention of sacrificing economic development in order to reduce emissions.

In the United States and other high - emitting nations there is hardly a peep or a whisper about the practical consequences of seeing climate change as a world - challenging ethical problem.

The leaders of the world's two largest greenhouse - gas - emitting nations touted two previous joint emissions deals, gave nearly back - to - back speeches on the urgency of tackling the climate threat and together issued a statement of support for an ambitious global accord.

This response appears to concede that the United States has no duty to act until other emitting nations agree to act but, nevertheless, the United States should act to show «leadership» to reduce climate change's great threat.

A working paper from the International Monetary Fund looks at the top 20 CO2 emitting nations, responsible for 79 % of world greenhouse gas emissions.

As matters stand now, some less developed countries simply assert climate impacts that are scientifically unsubstantiated, while other richer and major emitting nations contend few or no impacts can be proven, despite recent studies.

Changes in agriculture, policy and personal behaviors can reduce the energy a nation uses to feed itself and the greenhouse gases it emits

Contrast with the effort to reduce CO2 which requires agreements among all major emitting nations.

For this reason, a key issue on the Warsaw agenda is the ethical dimensions of short - term ghg emissions targets and the need for high - emitting nations in particular to increase their commitments.

This provides important information for driving policy debate, particularly for major greenhouse gas - emitting nations.»

Result - oriented concrete actions taken by the two largest greenhouse gas emitting nations will also set an example for other countries encouraging unilateral action and leading to sustainable transportation initiatives, as well as cooperative initiatives with other countries through multilateral fora.

That is, the United States, along with other very high - emitting nations, must act now because it can not make a credible case that US GHG emissions are already below the US's fair share of safe global emissions levels.

We have also explained on this website how the debate on climate change in the United States and several other high - emitting nations is largely ignoring national ethical responsibilities.

As we will explain in a future entry, the US commitments is still far short of what equity and justice would require of the United States despite reasonable disagreements on which equity framework should be followed by high - emitting nations.

Their best hope is that those high - emitting nations and people causing the problem will see that they have ethical duties to the victims to avoid harming them.

As the largest greenhouse gas emitting nation, China clearly needs to show strong leadership to avoid the worst global impacts of climate change.

As a matter of ethics high - emitting nations and individuals have had clear ethical duties to reduce ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions for over thirty years.