Sentences with phrase «global emitters»

As the two largest current global emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs), it is imperative that the United States and China work together to support effective domestic energy and climate change programs and an effective international climate regime.

The world's second - largest economy and largest global emitter of greenhouse gases has limited monitoring and verification capabilities.

The aviation sector is a top - ten global emitter whose emissions are expected to rise dramatically by mid-century.

The United States is a top global emitter, so it's going to take a lot of commitment to prove to the world that a global climate agreement can be a success — and convince other nations that they should be on board.

Not exact matches

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 US is the world's second largest emitter, responsible for 16 per cent of global emissions.

Food waste today is responsible for around 8pc of global greenhouse gas emissions — if it were a country, food waste would be the world's third - largest emitter, after China and the USA.

The finding suggests that an increase in hurricanes and tropical storms induced by global warming could turn forests into overall emitters of carbon dioxide, fuelling further climate change.

Even a potentially groundbreaking decision reached in Durban, South Africa, in December to begin negotiating a new global agreement that could see all major emitters cutting carbon won't take effect until 2020.

But that still leaves a load of pollution: China this year surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind global warming.

And this is really a serious thing to think about because, Africa, for example, is way down there, barely off the graph, and India too, which is now in the top ten CO2 emitters, is nowhere near the global per capita emissions.

The transition of the Widows Creek Fossil Plant near Stevenson, Ala., into Google's 14th global data center marks the end of an era for what was one of the nation's largest coal - fired power plants and one of the Tennessee Valley's largest emitters of carbon dioxide and other air pollution.

President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping struck a historic climate change agreement in Beijing last night, vowing that the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases will each undertake steep cuts in the coming decade and will work together toward a new global deal.

In 2005, the top emitter of human - caused mercury was Asia, at 65 percent of global emissions.

Researchers used data from the two countries because they «are the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases and responsible for about one - third of global warming to date,» said Longjian Liu, M.D., Ph.D., lead study author and an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

«Our position, [which] continues to this day, [was] that an approach that would exclude the majority of the world's emitters was not going to be an effective policy response to a global risk.»

A deal that sees all major emitters cutting greenhouse gases will be key to driving the needed global investment in low - carbon growth, the commission argues, calling it a «powerful macroeconomic policy instrument» that will send clear signals to businesses and investors.

The researchers identified China as the world's top CO2 emitter in 2014, responsible for 27 percent of global emissions, followed by the United States (15.5 percent), the European Union (9.5 percent) and India (7.2 percent).

Ponds and lakes play a significant role in the global carbon cycle, and are often net emitters of carbon gases to the atmosphere.

Leaning heavily on more IPCC quotes, Boutrous showed slides and statistics saying that climate change is a global problem that doesn't differentially affect the West Coast of North America and isn't caused by any one emitter.

A near - global carbon tax might be achieved, e.g., via a bi-lateral agreement between China and the United States, the greatest emitters, with a border duty imposed on products from nations without a carbon tax, which would provide a strong incentive for other nations to impose an equivalent carbon tax.

Update: Though the global HSPA + model we reviewed has no IR emitter, the LTE / CDMA version headed to Verizon Wireless does have one.

The declaration states: «In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.»

In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.

And yet that is the central issue facing the world at Durban: most non Annex - 1 countries — a category now including such poverty - stricken nations as the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Singapore and so on — insist that a new round of Kyoto is the be-all and end - all, an absolute precondition for any progress towards a truly global deal encompassing all the major emitters.

Leaning heavily on more IPCC quotes, Boutrous showed slides and statistics saying that climate change is a global problem that doesn't differentially affect the West Coast of North America and isn't caused by any one emitter.

There's a batch of new proposals for breaking the persistent global deadlock over dealing with global warming, all coming as world leaders prepare to meet at the Group of 8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, and in parallel sessions of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases.

Under the right circumstances glaciers melt abruptly, regional forests and soil become carbon emitters abruptly, and oceanic / atmospheric currents shift abruptly, leading to rapid global warming.

The extraordinary growth in power generation in China in recent years, which quickly vaulted the emerging industrial powerhouse to the top of the global list of carbon dioxide emitters, has collapsed under the weight of the global economic implosion — at least for now.

If it is China, then all the more reason to support China's low - carbon growth policies, to demand more nuclear / hydro / CCS / wind etc and to work as hard as possible at crafting a truly global emissions treaty that will include targets of some sort for all major emitters.

But some environmentalists credited the effort for engaging China and India, countries emerging as the dominant emitters of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas linked to global warming.

«Without the active participation of the two biggest emitters, namely China and the United States, it's not a global effort,» said Shimada, who was formerly Japan's lead negotiator at the talks.

Updates below, 12:42 p.m. After years of «you first» rhetoric on addressing the unrelenting buildup of climate - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, China and the United States, the world's biggest emitters, agreed in Beijing on Wednesday to intensify domestic steps and international partnerships to rein in their contributions to global warming.

Global warming is everyone's problem — but with China on course to overtake the United States by 2009 as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the report adds to the crucial call for the Middle Kingdom to put all hands on deck.

Finally, we believe that there would be a benefit to the United States if one of the world's largest carbon emitters headquartered here devoted at least some of the money it has invested in climate change denial pseudo-science to global remediation efforts.

Findings show that the top 10 emitters contribute to 72 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions but on the other hand, the lowest 100 emitters contribute to just less than 3 percent

Over 80 Parties representing 60 % of global emissions have now formally joined the agreement, including the largest emitters China, the US, the EU, and India.

In creating a new framework, the major emitters will work together to develop a long - term global goal to reduce greenhouse gasses.

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 %.

The cement sector is the third - largest industrial energy consumer in the world, responsible for 7 % of industrial energy use, and the second industrial CO2 emitter, with about 7 % of global CO2 emissions.

Not only because it signals (again) that the world's largest emitter may be starting to tackle global warming (and conventional air pollution), but because it tosses another shovelful of dirt on a longtime U.S. excuse for inaction.

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.

Global negotiators might, for instance, decide to go after the emitters of certain greenhouse gases that are more potent than carbon dioxide — gases produced particularly by companies that make chemicals.

Four countries in this region make the global top 30 list of highest annual CO2 emitters, namely Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela (using 2008 data).

This region is home to six of the top 20 annual global CO2 emitters, including Russia, which ranks third globally (using 2008 data).

Japan is fifth on the global list of annual CO2 emitters.

Agriculture has become a major emitter of greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — which are now responsible for 19 % of total global emissions.

The Climate Action Tracker tracks climate pledges and policies of 32 countries, covering around 80 % of global emissions, including all the biggest emitters and a representative sample of smaller emitters.

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.

This is a global problem and needs to be tackled on a global basis with the participation of all emitters.»