Sentences with phrase «for emitting countries»

With the clamour for all emitting countries to back some sort of ET scheme, it seems to me that stopping this runaway madness will become more difficult.

The outcome also establishes a task force on climate change - related displacement within the WIM, and makes clear that the loss and damage provision does not create new legal liability for emitting countries.

Not exact matches

But the US is also responsible for approximately one - third of the carbon dioxide that has been emitted, which makes the fact that the country is pledging a larger sum of money a bit more logical.

With more than 225 employees in three countries, Lumenpulse works with architects, electrical engineers and lighting designers to develop specification light - emitting diode, or LED, lighting for commercial, institutional and urban applications.

Anaerobic technology is particularly applicable to countries suffering drought, where treated waste water not only provides green energy to substitute for fossil fuels emitting climate change gases, but also processes waste streams to high recycling standards.

«It is not clear that this program has a whole lot of bite for a lot of very high carbon emitting states in the rust belt area, and by contrast it appears that it has a much heavier impact along the southern tier of the country including the south - east and Texas.»

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.

For example, more light is emitted by affluent regions in Albania than by similar regions in Liberia, which means that differences between countries have to be taken into account.

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.

These reservoirs are more than enough for the 3.2 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted every year by the roughly 4,600 large industrial sources in the country.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

Matthias Jonas at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, has calculated that countries can only report their emissions to within 5 to 10 per cent of what they actually emitted (Climatic Change, DOI: 10.1007 / s10584 -010-9914-6).

Buildings account for about two - fifths of the energy we use and are responsible for about two - fifths of the carbon emitted in this country.

Many climate activists argue that developed countries, which have historically emitted most, should be held most responsible for stopping climate change.

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.

However, the V40 Cross Country D2 hits back by emitting just 99g / km of CO2, which puts it in the 13 % band for company car tax and means entry to the London Congestion Charge zone is free.»

We will continue to meet with high representatives of these and other major energy consuming and greenhouse gas emitting countries to consider the necessary components for successfully combating climate change.

Altogether, credits are up for grabs equaling the 9.5 million tons of carbon dioxide that analysts have calculated will not be emitted because of a new initiative to protect a sprawling, biologically bountiful region in the country's northeast, called Makira.

He has warned that if all the world's countries fail by 2030 to move away from burning coal for power (at least without capturing the emitted CO2), it will be impossible to avoid a long slide toward Earth becoming «a different planet» from the one human societies have experienced for thousands of years.

Now, the United States, as a highly developed country, as I said before, per capita, consumes much more energy and emits much more greenhouse gases for each individual than does China.

International equity — letting poor countries emit more carbon than rich countries from here on out — demands that the United States, Europe, and other historically high emitting countries should position themselves for at least 80 percent reduction in emissions by 2030.

Popular denim brands, including Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Guess, Express, American Eagle Outfitters, Wrangler and Lee are hiding as much as 90 percent of the climate pollution they generate by outsourcing production to contractors in developing countries, and then avoiding responsibility for the carbon pollution emitted by manufacturing their products.

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.

So the trade part has two effects: (1) it makes a country want to set a high cap, and (2) it makes it want to emit less — if all the other countries have been nice and set their caps low so that they need permits and are willing to pay for them.

It is not enough for the United States to argue that continuing emissions trends in low - emitting countries will contribute to climate change harms without considering what distributive justice would require of low - emitting countries in regard to future emissions.

It is time that this persistent and worsening climate inequity is resolved, and for the largest emitting countries to act on their commitment of common but differentiated responsibilities.

The top six emitting countries, including the EU - 27 block, are responsible for 70 % of total global emissions and the top 25 emitting countries more than 80 % of total emissions.

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?

The Warsaw outcome mentions for the first time «nationally determined contributions» to reducing GHG emissions, reflecting a step away from a global budget approach (whereby we say that the supposedly «safe» temperature increase of 2 degrees could only be achieved if we emit X amount of carbon, and the game is to then decide who can emit what share) to a «pledge and review» approach (Whereby countries «pledge» to do what is «nationally appropriate» given their circumstances).

The use of coal as a fuel has now surpassed oil and developing countries now emit more greenhouse gases than developed countries — with a quarter of their growth in emissions accounted for by increased trade with the West.

«(iii) by country, annual total, annual per capita, and cumulative anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases for the top 50 emitting nations;

Companies can also receive credit for conservation projects in the least - developed, relatively low - emitting countries while they prepare their national plans.

• 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.

Such a benchmark would allow them to make a push at the Paris talks for «loss and damages» — compensation for poorer countries impacted by global warming from the larger greenhouse - gas emitting nations.

Some European countries have a carbon tax where the government sets a price for each tonne of carbon dioxide emitted.

The reasons for this are that the remaining carbon budget is so small, the per capita and historical emissions of high - emitting developed nations are so large compared to poor developing countries, and the financial resources of developed countries are so large compared to poor developing countries that equity considerations demand that the high - emitting nations financially help developing nations achieve their targets.

Next, participants were given information about International Energy Agency Estimates of grams of CO2 emitted per kWh from electricity and heat generation for Australia and other countries between 2005 and 2009 [60].

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.

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.

This result is clearly grossly unfair particularly in light of the fact that India has emitted far less tons of CO2 than most developed countries and therefore is less responsible for causing the existing problem than many developed nations.

For any given country, it is possible to compute the emissions embodied in its consumption or those emitted in its productive sector.

The only problem with the KP was that it was missing two things — ambitious targets for emission reductions and the country that had historically emitted the most, or the United States.

You'll keep coughing due to the pollutants even if you build millions of wind turbines, killing all the birds and making life miserable for country people who will have to find sleep in their vicinity (the problem of infrasound emitted by these monsters).

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For example, some have contended that countries that have emitted a great deal of GHG in the past owe restitution to countries that have been harmed by their emissions.

While mainstream greens praised Obama for ditching the United Nations and getting China and other developing countries to discuss making their own climate commitments, they continue to imagine that the final disposition of that process will be binding emissions - reduction agreements among major emitting countries.

A third option is that countries should take responsibility for the CO2 emitted in their airspace.

India was the first country to set comprehensive quality and performance standards for light emitting diodes (LEDs), and it expects to save as much as 277 terawatt - hours of electricity between 2015 and 2030, avoiding 254 million metric tons of CO2 emissions or the equivalent of 90 coal - fired power plants.

They will argue that most of the existing greenhouse gases generated by humans were emitted by today's rich countries and that those countries should therefore bear more responsibility for cutting back.

As we shall see, that high - emitting nations have responsibility for funding adaptation measures in developing countries is a conclusion that can be based on strong ethical grounds despite reasonable disagreements about such matters as when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.»