Sentences with phrase «highest emitter of»

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.

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

Which country in the world is the highest emitter of C02 per person and how has this changed over time?

National Research Council: [A] ccording to EPA's own estimates, corn - grain ethanol produced in 2011, which is almost exclusively made in biorefineries using natural gas as a heat source, is a higher emitter of GHG than gasoline.

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.

Not exact matches

The incandescent bulb is an example of a high temperature thermal emitter.

But even high - efficiency ammonia plants are heavy CO2 emitters: two tons are released for every ton of ammonia produced.

Xu said that higher trading activities are expected to emerge in coming weeks because regulated emitters are approaching their deadline of reporting annual emissions and therefore have stronger incentives to trade carbon allowances.

In particular, agreements were more likely to be reached if the group was comprised of fewer agents rather than many; if the group consisted of a variety of small and large emitters; and if the perceived individual threat of not reaching an agreement was high.

«The high efficiency of the materials along with cheap, scalable synthesis makes them very attractive as next generation emitters for fluorescent lamps, LEDs and for biological imaging, for example for highlighting tumours or cell division.»

One of those users is Dane Morgan, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison who develops new materials for a wide range of applications, including highly active catalysts for fuel cells, stable low - work function electron emitter cathodes for high - powered microwave devices, and efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally safe solar materials.

South Africa is, per capita, one of the 20 highest carbon emitters in the world.

Four of them are known colliding wind, non-thermal radio emitters, and thus constitute valuable targets for future high angular resolution radio imaging.

Alternatively, with infrared saunas, make sure to select one that provides an equal amount of heat using high - quality carbon emitters.

A high mobility semiconductor is required for the pixel electronics in an OLED display, and making this layer organic (as well as the emitter materials) is the real breakthrough as it fully enables the flexibility and industrial benefits of OLED displays.

The company is currently working with the key display makers to finish the commercialization of the industry's first blue high - efficiency emitter.

Mercury - vapor is the stronger type of UV - B emitter, yet providing high temperature as well.

Citizens have tried traps, poisons, high - frequency noise emitters, and all sorts of devices to fight the problem, but one method seems to be working better than the rest, so long as you can get it to stick around.

China is the world's largest SO2 emitter, mostly due to the burning of high - sulfur coal in its many coal - fired power plants, which lack the technology used in many other countries to remove sulfur from smoke stack emissions.

Expectations at Bali were never high, so it should be no surprise that the U.S. and China, the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, made no commitments.

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.

As one of the highest per capita greenhouse emitters in the world we serve as a model for countries wishing to resist action on climate change.

I doubt it's coincidental that the price is just above the reserve — that suggests the «market» expectation is that it won't be too hard to for California emitters to meet the cap, something that's uncomfortably close to the problem of the European market that has too high a cap and a collapsed market.

Among industrialized countries, Australia has the thirteenth largest population but is the seventh largest emitter.23 In absolute terms our emissions (528 Mt) are higher than those of some major European countries such as France (502 Mt) and Italy (527 Mt) and only 20 per cent lower than those of the UK (661 Mt).

The UNFCCC principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities» [ii] means Australia, as a developed country and high per - capita emitter, has the obligation and capacity to lead.

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.

It clearly states that (a) emission of energy by radiation is accompanied with cooling of the surface (if no compensating changes prevent it), and (b) the tendency to a radiative equilibrium means that the emitter with the higher surface temperature will loose energy due to a negative net radiation balance until this net radiation balance becomes zero.

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).

Countries least vulnerable to the impacts of climate change were generally the highest GHG emitters, and conversely those most vulnerable to climate change were the least responsible for its genesis.

This even includes the USA, despite the fact that the USA is the largest historical CO2 emitter, the second - largest current emitter, and has one of the highest current per capita emissions rates.

And the high emitters are now China and India, two of the beneficiaries of this process representing about a third of the world's population — far more than the rich - world population.

Brazil, for example, has reduced its deforestation - related emissions by two - thirds in just six years, and Indonesia, a large emitter of global warming pollution because of high rates of deforestation, has pledged to cut overall emissions by more than 25 percent by 2020.

They will also continue to point out that the U.S. still has high per - capita emissions, remains the largest historic emitter, is a large importer of carbon - intensive goods made in the developing world, and has become a major producer of fossil fuels.

Anyway, I have encountered this question out in the wilds, and my response was that the CO2 container would have the lower equilibrium temperature, the N2 container the higher because the CO2 is a good LW emitter and the N2 is not, consistent with, «So if you assume that two contained «bubbles» of gas with a given temperature were placed in space the N2 would cool much more slowly.»

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

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.

Australia is the highest per capita emitter of GHG.

There is, of course, nothing wrong with claims that some climate change policies will produce jobs, but such assertions should also say that emissions should be reduced because high - emitters of ghgs have duties and obligations to do so.

South Afrrica, despite being a non-Annex 1 country, has acknowledged its status as the highest ghg emitter on the African continent and announced a voluntary emissions reduction target, the objective of which is to make a «fair contribution'to keep global concentrations within the range required to keep within the 2 degree C warming limit.

However the lack of emissions reductions commitments from the U.S. for the past few years puts decisions on finance into question, since many emerging economies like China and India who have only recently become high carbon emitting countries are loath to act until historical emitters, like the U.S., make a move.

«By setting the carbon budgets too high, policymakers have inadvertently granted European emitters a license to pollute at business as usual levels for much of the next decade,» said Damien Morris from Sandbag

Of these three, the only one exhibiting clear exponential growth is India, which is growing at about 5 percent per year and is also the highest current emitter of the threOf these three, the only one exhibiting clear exponential growth is India, which is growing at about 5 percent per year and is also the highest current emitter of the threof the three.

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.

As it's far too high they offset 238.5 W / m ^ 2 by falsely applying Kirchhoff's Law of Radiation to the semi-transparent emitter at Top of Atmosphere.

It would promote higher utilization of power plants that are low emitters of carbon, and encourage low - carbon fuel choices for the future.»

Indonesia, whose rapid clearing of rainforests accounts for about one - quarter of all carbon emissions from deforestation globally, has said that it will pledge to cut its emissions by 40 % from 2005 levels by 2030, if it receives international support: Currently deforestation is the source of 80 % of Indonesia's carbon emissions, and when these emissions are included in the nation's total (they aren't always, on some charts of highest emitting nations) it is in the top ten emitters — right up there with the US, China, and other industrial nations.

Due to high deforestation rates, the nation ranks among the top tier of greenhouse gas emitters — not to mention the effect all this

Due to high deforestation rates, the nation ranks among the top tier of greenhouse gas emitters — not to mention the effect all this habitat loss has on animals.

EDITOR»S NOTE: 8/3/15: When this post was published, it incorrectly stated that Ohio was the only state in the top 10 emitters that was also part of the 10 states with the highest per capita emissions.