Sentences with phrase «even bigger emitter»

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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not confirm whether the United States would remain in the global climate change pact, under which nearly all countries agreed in 2015 to halt or curb their greenhouse gas emissions, even as the world's biggest emitter China reaffirmed its commitment to the agreement.

The big emitters in Durban, so the BBC tells me, aren't even thinking of a DEAL before 2015, far less emissions peaking.

The third meeting of the world's «major economies,» in White House parlance — or biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, by another measure — concluded Friday evening in Paris.

If the US, the world's biggest CO2 emitter, won't even join the other developed countries, leverage with India and China is drastically reduced.

Moreover, even those programs that have been implemented as claimed have, for the most part, proved singularly ineffective, especially the much - touted Greenhouse Challenge Program which, in the end, is little more than a tax - payer funded PR exercise for some of Australia's biggest emitters.

Anybody who can do basic arithmetic could have figured that out for themselves: the biggest emitter is China — less than 30 % of the global total — the second - biggest is the US — under 20 % — and no other single nation accounts for even 10 %.

Meanwhile, even preventing a 3 ° increase looks iffy, given the sluggish pace of clean - energy construction so far and the fact that President Donald Trump, the leader of the world's second - biggest emitter, has vowed to exit the Paris accord (see «Exiting Paris, Trump cedes global leadership on climate change»).

What is strange is that the mainstream media and leading climate action proponents like Merkel all pretend that Germany is a responsible leader in cutting back CO2 emissions, and even claim that big emitters, like China and India, are all onboard in curbing CO2 emissions, and that is only the USA that is the big, rogue CO2 sinner.

So when the Irvings propose a new seven billion dollar, 300,000 barrel per day refinery there is no real worry about it, even though the existing refinery pumps out 3.3 million tonnes of CO2 per year and is one of Canada's 25 biggest emitters.