Sentences with phrase «highest per capita emissions»

However, there's very little overlap between states with the highest per capita emissions and the states with the highest total emissions, shown in the chart below.

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.

As a wealthy nation with the highest per capita emissions in the industrialized world, Australia must be seen to do its fair share, otherwise other nations, no matter how big their emissions, will feel less obligation to do theirs.

Since industrial nations have far higher per capita emissions than other countries (e.g., US = 20 tons / yr, Europe = 10 tons / yr, China = 4 tons / yr), industrial nations will have to reduce a lot more if some degree of fairness is to be achieved (without which important nations like China or India are not going to join the effort).

And the first place prize went to, drum roll please, Canada, for refusing to take on absolute emissions reductions targets unless developing countries do so as well — ignoring Canada's historical responsibility and its vastly higher per capita emissions compared to developing countries.»

If a wealthy nation with high per capita emissions refused to adopt emission reduction targets, it would be impossible to persuade developing countries to adopt targets in subsequent commitment periods.

[iv] In one sense, having high per capita emissions makes it easier for Australia to cut emissions than other countries, because there is more «low - hanging fruit».

To ask India to take on the same obligations as developed countries with more than 30 times higher per capita income and over ten times higher per capita emissions is simply unfair.

«With Australia's exceedingly high per capita emissions, we have a greater responsibility to make larger cuts to our emissions.

The United States and Canada also have very high per capita emissions.

Some non-Annex 1 countries including China and Mauritius claim that their non-Annex 1 status is justification for making no binding commitments to reduce their ghg emissions even though a substantial percentage of their population has very high income and high per capita emissions.

The more the industrialized community looks at a comprehensive approach, the worse the U.S. looks because of our high per capita emissions.

«It must be pointed out that climate change has been caused by the long - term historic emissions of developed countries and their high per capita emissions,» she said, adding that developed countries have responsibilities for global warming «that can not be shirked.»

These countries have very small populations and thriving economies that contribute to high per capita emissions.

Not exact matches

Finally, in so doing, both the EU and China would put further pressure on the US, which, even though it has the highest per / capita emissions rate among the world's largest economies, it is still reticent to commit to fight climate change.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

This second calculation allowed the researchers to see that people with higher incomes are responsible for a larger per capita amount of carbon emissions, Ivanova said.

Countries with the highest emissions per capita tend to have smaller families on average, whereas those with low emissions per capita tend to have larger ones.

The blueprint also encourages urban agriculture, rethinks sewer and wastewater management and reduces greenhouse gas emissions per capita to the lowest in the world by promoting even higher - density living with smaller multifamily homes, especially along transit corridors in Vancouver's downtown peninsula.

By 2020 it will be responsible for a quarter of the world's emissions and will probably have per - capita emissions as high as Europe.

«The average per capita resource use in wealthy countries is 5 to 10 times higher than in developing countries, and the developed countries are responsible for over three quarters of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions from 1850 to 2000.»

Given the high per capita carbon emissions in the US, this is not a good thing.

The Chinese - and the UN - insist that rich countries with high per capita levels of pollution must cut emissions first, and help poorer countries to invest in clean technology.

Thank you Betty Chambers for your tasteless disregard of the truth that the reckless and wasteful resource consumption of the United States adds up to over 22 % of the world's Carbon dioxide emissions, the highest per - capita in the world (if it's not because of our «wealthy» lifestyle in the west, then why is it?).

Leaders in both the United Kingdom and Germany, with high per capita historical emissions, would seem to be good candidates, yet they have hesitated, despite «green» credentials.

Also, back to the media, I'm amazed that the media (here, I'm talking in general and on average, not Dot Earth) don't point out the nonsense and un-wisdom in some of the arguments that suggest that we, in America, should be able to have per capita emissions that are an order of magnitude higher than those of people in many other countries.

Given the high per capita carbon emissions in the US, this is not a good thing.

China has per - capita emissions 45 percent over the global average, and higher per - capita emissions than the European Union.

People from overseas are puzzled that we build houses as if they were throwaway consumer products, and that is a big reason why per capita emissions are so high in the US.

What we should be doing is helping them electrify and modernize their country in ways that will lead them to be able to obtain high quality of life without catching up to us in per capita emissions.

You, China, pointing to the much higher per - capita emissions in the U.S., and you, U.S., pointing to the high absolute emissions in China.

And, while it is true that the developing nation's tend to have the highest RATE of growth of greenhouse gas emissions, it is still the developed world... and the U.S. in particular... that have the highest amount of greenhouse gas emissions per capita.

Returning to my original point that some «are paying disproportionately» for the externalization of FF emissions, the people in the states with the ten highest losses paid 4.6 as much per capita as the average, and 125 times as much as in the least affected ten states.

Main findings are: (1) energy consumption will peak at 5200 — 5400 million tons coal equivalent (Mtce) in 2035 — 2040; (2) CO2 emissions will peak at 9200 — 9400milliontons (Mt) in 2030 — 2035, whilst it can be potentially reduced by 200 — 300Mt; (3) China ׳ s per capita energy consumption and per capita CO2 emission are projected to peak at 4tce and 6.8 t respectively in 2020 — 2030, soon after China steps into the high income group.

It would be difficult to understand those with the highest per capita CO2 emissions not doing more to save the climate.

Given the county's relatively high per - capita emissions of greenhouse gases, mostly due to transportation and heavy industries, Iceland's leaders see reforestation as an avenue toward meeting the nation's climate goals.

The highest per capita carbon emissions are in several small oil and gas producing countries.

If you want to talk about equity, look at the cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and going into the oceans and acidifying it, and the vast majority comes from the industrializied countries, the US and so forth — and the per capita emissions are much higher.

Australia's annual per capita emissions are 27.2 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2 - e), the highest in the industrialised world.

In our study we also showed that, while difference between high and low immigration scenarios is 70 Mt of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia's by 2020, the world's greenhouse gas emissions would increase by less than half of this amount since immigrants to Australia come from countries that have per capita emissions levels less than half of Australia's (around 42 %).

Oops, Iowa is the 8th highest state for CO2 emissions per capita, not 43rd.

The United States — which accounted for a good third of the Annex I countries» emissions of carbon dioxide in 1990 and has the world's highest emissions per capita — abandoned the protocol in 2001, with the excuse that it excluded 80 per cent of the world's population and would, moreover, be detrimental to the US economy.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local valuper cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local valuper cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local valuPer capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local valuper cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

The issue of 2020 commitments, apart from a new all encompassing treaty, will be one of the main themes, and sticking points, of the talks in Qatar — one of the few nation states that has a rate of emissions per capita higher than Australia ’s

Tying future human CO2 growth projections to human population growth projections and adding in a 30 % estimated increase in per capita CO2 emissions by 2100, gives you a CO2 level of 640 ppmv (or a bit higher than IPCC case B2).

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.

However, after a year 2000 dip, Germany for example has been more successful than Britain in keeping down emissions, even though they have higher per capita and overall emissions.

In per - capita terms Australia has among the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the world, yet the Australian Turnbull Government is resisting efforts to reduce those emissions and is trying to increase the amount of coal mining, coal burning and coal exporting.

Our withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol and our record of having one of the world's highest per - capita GHG emissions gave us the dubious distinction of being the only country in the Centre for Global Development's rankings to have gone down since it first started tracking them in 2003.

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.