Sentences with phrase «high emitters»

Despite this, South Africa is the 14th highest emitter of CO2 in the world with emissions likely to rise sharply as energy demands increase.

The study also destroys the hydro industry's claims that reservoirs are only high emitters for their first decade or so after construction — the Wohlensee was built in 1920.

Brazil is accountable for 2.48 percent of emissions — it is the 7th highest emitter in the world,

Then they immediately add that, in any progressive system, «the vast majority of high emitters still come from rich countries (particularly North America).»

Since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 the distribution of high emitters no longer splits along country borderlines.

This would be fairer and beneficial for China, the leading current emitter and third highest emitter historically.

A proposal to set international carbon - reduction targets based on the distribution of one billion «high emitters» in both developed and developing countries

The United States is still among the highest emitter per person at 16 tonnes.

Mauzerall said the relatively low number of high - emitting wells could offer a workable solution: while trying to plug every abandoned well in the country might be too costly to be realistic, dealing with the smaller number of high emitters could be possible.

Among those, 17 (27 percent) were «high emitters» (including HP LaserJet and HP Color LaserJet models, and one Toshiba Studio model), which caused the concentration of particles in the surrounding air to jump tenfold when just one page was printed.

A binding treaty is needed urgently to ensure unilateral action among the high emitters.»

By focusing on all the world's high emitters, and counting the emissions of high emitters the same wherever they live, what each of you considers essential is built in.

The highest emitters, roughly one billion people, have the emissions that are counted in this scheme.

The middle group is targeted along with the high emitters for aggressive decarbonization.

The study finds that one in five sources were high emitters — and the only way I know to address that problem is through comprehensive regulation of new and existing sources.

For the world's highest emitters, including the United States, China and India, these values were similar no matter which accounting method was applied.

Critics of cap and trade point out that the very idea of the highest emitters receiving the most permits for «free» is counterintuitive, and we only have to look at the performance of the European trading system for evidence that this doesn't work.

They end modestly, noting that «a significant number of high emitters can now be found in emerging countries,» that since Kyoto, «inequalities increased between the bottom of the CO2e emissions pyramid and the middle, and were reduced between the middle and the top,» and that it is thus commendable that «high emitters in China, India or Brazil» have stepped up on the mitigation front.

This is a worry — when the Kyoto Protocol was first talked about, the countries of the developing developed world were overwhelmingly the highest emitters of CO2.

This is a worry — when the Kyoto Protocol was first talked about, the countries of the develop ^ ed ^ world were overwhelmingly the highest emitters of CO2.

Though the stance of Nasheed is commendable, given their relatively low emissions of carbon dioxide, the efforts of places like the Maldives are basically only as good as those of the highest emitters, like the United States and China.

China and the U.S. are the highest emitters.

The effort - sharing of a flight - ticket tax (rightmost column above) would not be quite as progressive as carbon - taxing the high emitters, but it might be easier to administer.

In any equitable system, the money should not just come from rich countries, but from the high emitters, wherever they live.

Combet said that Australians are the highest emitters of CO2 per capita.

If you included emissions from deforestation into national greenhouse gas emissions (which isn't always done, but probably should...) Indonesia is the world's third - highest emitter — India is if you don't take into account deforestation emissions.

An important scientific paper (by Chakravarty et al.), called Sharing global CO2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters was just published in the Proceedings of the [US] National Academy of Sciences.

«Particle Emission Characteristics of Office Printers,» by Congrong He, Lidia Morawska, and Len Taplin in Environmental Science & Technology [abstract], has kicked up a dust storm because of its finding that 40 % of printers studied emitted particles when printing, 27 % being «high emitters.»