Sentences with phrase «emitting nations in»

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.

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.

For these reasons, high emitting nations in particular have a legal and ethical responsibility to reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions.

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

• 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.

Not exact matches

«Garden equipment engines emit high levels of carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, producing up to 5 % of the nation's air pollution and a good deal more in many metropolitan areas like Los Angeles.

Inner Mongolia has become the center of the coal industry in China — the nation that burns the most coal and, as a result, emits the most greenhouse gases in the world

Modern diesel cars emit less pollution generally than cars that run on gasoline, says a new six - nation study published today in Scientific Reports whose groundwork was laid in part by an American chemist now working at Université de Montréal.

The amount of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere has quickly increased as well, with about a third of the total added by human activity — much of that emitted by nitrogen - based fertilizers, and half of that from just three nations: China, the Soviet Union, and the United States.

-- It is the policy of the United States to work proactively under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and in other appropriate fora, to establish binding agreements, including sectoral agreements, committing all major greenhouse gas - emitting nations to contribute equitably to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emiNations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and in other appropriate fora, to establish binding agreements, including sectoral agreements, committing all major greenhouse gas - emitting nations to contribute equitably to the reduction of global greenhouse gas eminations to contribute equitably to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions.

About 90 percent of global trade in goods travels by ship, and the vessels together emit about as much greenhouse gases as Germany, the nation with the sixth - highest emissions in the world.

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

The fact is, the developing nations are not going to accept remaining in poverty just to avoid emitting greenhouse gases, and we have to accept it.

At Bali, the Indian government has stated it's desires to join the fight with a hard pledge to never emit more ghg per person than the folks in the industrialized nations do.

Recent studies including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common climate pollutants: black carbon and methane, both of which are emitted from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

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.

When a nation like Greece is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Garden equipment engines, which have had unregulated emissions untill very recently, emit high levels of carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, producing up to 5 % of the nation's air pollution and a good deal more in metropolitan areas.

When a nation like The Netherlands are in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like the U.K. is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like Switzerland is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like China is in ecological deficit, it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like Italy is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like India is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

This is true because most mainstream scientists have concluded that the world must reduce total global emissions by at the very least 60 to 80 percent below existing levels to stabilize GHG atmospheric concentrations at minimally safe atmospheric GHG concentrations and the United States is a huge emitter both in historical terms and in comparison to current emissions levels of other high emitting nations.

In effect, this compelling new data appears to show that the ashphalt and concreted industrial nations are «mopping up» carbon dioxide faster than their manufacturers and consumers can emit it.

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?

Each year, nations must then go on to remove much, much, more largely carbon - based greenhouse gases from the atmosphere than they emit in just and equitable ways.

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 concept is that every human being on this planet has the right to emit the same amount of carbon dioxide; therefore, citizens of developing nations would be given the same quota for emissions as citizens in industrialized nations.

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.

And these investments are yielding positive results, helping facilitate a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's power sector as utilities adopt this lower emitting source.

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.

[7] According to a 2009 report by Environment America, «America's Biggest Polluters,» the Monroe Power Plant is the seventh largest carbon dioxide emitting plant in the nation, releasing 20.6 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2007.

Declares that it is the policy of the United States to work proactively under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and in other appropriate fora to establish binding agreements, including sectoral agreements, committing all major GHG - emitting nations to contribute equitably to the reduction of global GHG emiNations Framework Convention on Climate Change and in other appropriate fora to establish binding agreements, including sectoral agreements, committing all major GHG - emitting nations to contribute equitably to the reduction of global GHG eminations to contribute equitably to the reduction of global GHG emissions.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Five of Europe's six most carbon emitting power plants are based in Germany, according to the Oeko - Institut e.V. Lignite power met 25 percent of the nation's demand last year, a figure that's been largely stable for the past two decades, according to AG Energiebilanzen e.V.

-- It is the policy of the United States to work proactively under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and in other appropriate fora, to establish binding agreements, including sectoral agreements, committing all major greenhouse gas - emitting nations to contribute equitably to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emiNations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and in other appropriate fora, to establish binding agreements, including sectoral agreements, committing all major greenhouse gas - emitting nations to contribute equitably to the reduction of global greenhouse gas eminations to contribute equitably to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions.

However in John's recent weekly news (28 Dec) the 3rd article (Climate change 2013: Where we are now - not what you think) contained - «The new IPCC report tells us that half of warming (57 %) that should have already occurred has been masked by aerosols mostly emitted since the turn of the century in rapidly developing Asian nations (yes, warming would double if cooling smog pollutants were suddenly cleaned up in Asia).»

This question is designed to expose the ethical duty of the United States and other high - emitting nations under international law to prevent its citizens from engaging in activities which cause climate change damages as a matter international law without regard to what other nations do.

The second is the urgency of the need for hard - to - imagine action to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions at all scales, that is globally, nationally, and locally, but particularly in high - emitting nations such as the United States in light of the limited amount of ghgs that can be emitted by the entire world before raising atmospheric ghg concentrations to very dangerous levels and in light of the need to fairly allocate ghg emissions reductions obligations around the world.

Do you deny that all high ghg emitting developed nations under the UNFCCC has a duty to adopt policies that prevent harms from climate change to human health and ecological systems on which life depends which the nation is causing in other nations?

This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

Black carbon, as it is otherwise called, is emitted by cooking stoves in the villages of developing nations.

If nations must reduce their ghg emissions by the same percentage amount, then such an allocation will freeze into place huge differences in per capita rights to emit ghg emissions into the atmosphere.

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.

These features include: (a) it is a problem caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of ghgs in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people and who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, and, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people, nations must act quickly to limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions.

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

Do you deny that all high ghg emitting developed nations under the UNFCCC has a duty to adopt policies that prevent harms from climate change to human health and ecological systems on which life depends in other nations?