Sentences with phrase «lowest emitting countries»

In 2014, the sector emitted more CO2 into the atmosphere than the combined emissions of the 129 lowest emitting countries.

India is, and will, remain a low emitting country at least till 2030.

Not exact matches

Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gases have been, and continue to be, emitted by the massive fossil fuel consumption of a tiny percentage of the Earth's human population, most of them in countries with low rates of population growth — and that the overwhelming majority of human beings on the Earth, particularly those in countries with relatively high rates of population growth, generate only a small amount of greenhouse gases.

Declare our determination, as low - emitting countries that are acutely vulnerable to climate change, to show moral leadership on climate change through actions as well as words, by acting now to commence greening our economies as our contribution towards achieving carbon neutrality,

India and other developing countries quite rightly claim they need and deserve money, plainly speaking, both to switch to lower - carbon energy systems and to brace themselves for the impacts that are already locked in by past carbon emitted by richer nations.

So the trade part has two effects: (1) it makes a country want to set a high cap, and (2) it makes it want to emit less — if all the other countries have been nice and set their caps low so that they need permits and are willing to pay for them.

In this world, when the price is lowered to $ 10, every country emits more and they each cause $ 10 trillion in damage.

It is not enough for the United States to argue that continuing emissions trends in low - emitting countries will contribute to climate change harms without considering what distributive justice would require of low - emitting countries in regard to future emissions.

We placed the emissions quintiles on a scale between the highest (acute emissions) and the lowest (low emissions) emitting countries.

Yet, some low - emitting developing countries can make a credible case that their current emissions levels are still below their fair share of safe global emissions.

Companies can also receive credit for conservation projects in the least - developed, relatively low - emitting countries while they prepare their national plans.

It is easy to sympathise with their extreme reluctance to commit to levels of emissions decades from now that are lower than what industrial countries are emitting today.

But a country with low carbon intensity and large economy could still emit more overall than a country with a high carbon intensity and small economy.

We won't save the world by becoming carbon neutral — we emit nothing compared with other countries — but if we can demonstrate a low carbon development strategy that can be copied elsewhere, it will be a step in the right direction.»

Shifting to a low - carbon economy will require current emitting countries and projected future emitters to rapidly scale up their investments in renewable energy.

Bureaucrats and politicians from developing countries have reiterated that rich nations have emitted 80 percent of greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere, and so bear an historic responsibility to combat climate change and provide finance for low carbon technologies and adaptation to climate change.

Also, the world no longer divides up so neatly between high - emitting developed countries and low - emitting developing countries.

Developing countries, especially those with low emitting economies should be provided incentives to continue to develop on a low emission pathway.

This shift, combined with unusually low heating demand last winter and reduced gasoline demand, meant the country emitted the smallest amount of energy - related carbon dioxide in a January - to - March stretch since 1992, according to a report out this month from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Exempting Low - Emitting, Energy Poor (LEEP) countries from carbon restrictions and supporting them in affordable energy generation would help bring an end to energy poverty, in Africa and around the world.

Yet climate change is an analogous problem because some very high - emitting countries are largely causing great harm to very low - emitting poor countries who can do little by themselves to protect themselves from the great harm.