Some environmental groups are worried over the rise in coal
exports from multiple countries (including the United States and Australia) to China, which burns half of the six billion tons the world burns annually.
Not exact matches
If Canada wants to benefit
from Asia's development and growth, and remain a relevant and important energy partner in Asia, we must «think big» about
exporting to
multiple countries within the Asia Pacific, and «think beyond» oil and natural gas to include all of Canada's energy related assets, particularly the renewable and clean technologies that will help Asia mitigate its own climate - change challenges.
This would serve
multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us
from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror -
exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition
from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.
Data on GHG emissions (by
countries) were
exported from the World Resource Institute's (WRI) Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) 17, a database of national and international GHG emissions derived
from multiple sources.