Sentences with phrase «greatest emitter»

After all, China had passed the United States as the world's greatest emitter and was continuing to build a new coal - fired power plant every week or so.

In China, the world's greatest emitter of greenhouse gases, the number of people saying climate change is a very serious problem has decreased by 23 percentage points since 2010.

While China and the U.S. get most of the attention, India - where 300 million people still live without electricity - is the globe's third greatest emitter of greenhouse gases, and one of the globe's fastest - growing coal consumers.

-- He has not given a substantial speech focused on the responsibility of the world's greatest emitter of greenhouse gases to face up to the long - term risks posed by the rising human influence on the climate system and pursue the opportunities that lie in a sustained «energy quest.»

«Those ships are great emitters of soot,» Zender points out, adding that, «putting a locally heavy source in the Arctic in the early spring,» is virtually guaranteed «to polish off the summer sea ice.»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

China is the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter in part because it is the world's greatest burner of coal for electricity.

«Living downwind of coal - fired power plant could increase risk of low birth weight: Study found that babies born during 1990 - 2006 to mothers living as far as 20 to 30 miles away from proven emitter of sulfur dioxide emissions had 6.5 percent greater risk of low birth weight and 17.12 percent greater risk of very low birth weight.»

WILL the last great untamed carbon dioxide emitters — aviation and shipping — finally be brought under international control?

We will soon have dual screens, malleable screens, screens built into wifi connected mirrors, desks or backside of gadgets clothed with e-ink screens, tactile feedback, color screens with great contrast in sunlight, holographics / stereoscopic screens, color e-ink touch screens, or screens actually knowing where they are in relation to other screens thanks to ultrasonic emitters and microphones.

Indonesia is the world's largest emitter of land - based greenhouse gases, releasing almost twice the amount as the second greatest source, Brazil, according to the study.

The differences between a relatively low perception of the climate challenge and public willingness to do something about it are even greater in other nations: in Israel (56 points) and Ukraine (48 points), countries which are not among the top 20 CO2 emitters, and in Poland (44 points) and South Korea (41 points), which are.

China, for instance — the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and greatest consumer of coal in the world — has made notable strides in shifting its energy landscape in recent years.

China may now officially be the world's biggest emitter of CO2 but the economic expansion, fueled in large part by coal, that is causing all those greenhouse gas emissions is set to have a greater percentage of clean energy powering it in coming years.

Low emitters that are likely to be disproportionately affected by climate change are subsidence farmers like on the great river deltas (Eg Ganges, Niger, Mekong etc).