Sentences with phrase «from big emitters»

In fact, divide the total revenue collected through the carbon levy by total emissions from big emitters and you've effectively got a carbon tax of less than $ 2 a tonne, not nearly enough to drive down industry emissions.

Some developing countries have been asking for a separate framework that would allow them to seek compensation from the biggest emitters for loss of property, land, and other damages associated with global warming.

Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel and industry since 1960 (top left); global emissions by fuel type (middle left); Territorial (solid) and consumption (dashed) emissions by country group (bottom left); territorial emissions from biggest emitters (top right); per capita emissions from biggest emitters (bottom right).

Not exact matches

Just last week, Syria joined the Paris climate agreement, making the United States — the world's second - biggest emitter of greenhouse gases — the only nation whose commitment to the plan remains in question, after President Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the agreement earlier this year.

It would be hard to imagine, speaking for the United States, that there could be the level of financial commitment that I have just announced in the absence of transparency from the second biggest emitter — and now I guess the first biggest emitter, and now nearly, if not already, the second biggest economy.

Overall, the meetings of the world's biggest emitters produced what many analysts say is the first sign that treaty talks culminating in December 2009 could produce a meaningful, if still preliminary, step forward from the 1992 climate treaty and its struggling addendum, the Kyoto Protocol.

In the meantime, opponents of emissions limits are not assuming that the Kyoto accord is dead, despite its having been greatly weakened by the rejection from the United States, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Asia Sentinel: The world faces another 17 years of potentially growing emissions from China's industries Despite having become the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases nearly two years ago, China is at least another 17 years away from peak emissions, according to a new report by the HSBC Climate Change Team, issued late last year.

They are organized around flexibility, around engaging as many countries as possible, especially the big emitters from developing and developed countries alike, and they are organized around what might be called a bottom - up process in which individual countries make pledges and they reveal what they are willing and able to do on their own.

UCS finds that Morocco and Ethiopia, minor players on the global stage, are far clearer about how they will make progress on reforestation and reducing emissions from agriculture than China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, and Canada, the ninth biggest emitter and one of the very worst in terms of per capita emissions.

A bigger concern might be the presence of airborne particulates from coal - fired power plants, which are the U.S.'s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide.

It relies heavily on offsets — theoretical carbon reductions bought from other countries or other industries — so that big US emitters will not need to try so hard.

Senior officials from the host, Peru, and biggest regional emitter, Brazil, told the [continue reading...]

As both the House and the Senate grapple with proposed carbon - cutting measures — carbon taxes and «cap - and - trade» schemes for big CO2 emitters such as coal - fired power plants; increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, SUVs, and trucks; and mandatory set - asides for clean renewable energy in the mix of energy generation options — emissions from aircraft seem, at least for the time being, to have gone over the heads of most policymakers engaged in the rush to cut carbon emissions.

A new assessment shows 80 percent of INDCs submitted so far — including those from the world's eight biggest emitters — call for an increase in the supply of clean energy.

That's just one of several headline takeaways on a Tuesday of big announcements from Brazil, China, and the US — three of the world's top greenhouse gas emitters — with major implications for the UN climate talks in Paris later this year.

While ECO found it extremely pleasant to hear Chile, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Kenya, Bolivia and Cote d'Ivoire's plans to contribute to global climate action during yesterday's workshop on Non Annex 1 mitigation action, ECO wonders why some of the big emitters from the developing world tried to hide under their desks.

Similarly, it would be quite interesting to get more information from countries like Nigeria, Iran, Venezuela, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Thailand, who are all part of the biggest emitters.

In December 2008, an International Rivers press release alleged that German utility RWE, one of the biggest carbon dioxide emitters in Europe, planned to buy carbon credits from the Xiaoxi dam in Hunan — which failed to meet World Commission on Dams guidelines — and that would be a breach of EU law.

Unfortunately, the fact that the world's second largest emitter and largest per - capita emitter, the United States, famously never ratified the Kyoto Protocol — the very idea of the protocol was rejected by the U.S. Senate in 1997 by a vote of 95 - 0 — and that it does not require emission reductions from developing countries including the biggest emitters like China and India, calls into question whether the protocol by itself could ever assure climate safety.