Sentences with phrase «major emitters»

GHG data incorporated into a national PRTR can raise public awareness of major emitters of greenhouse gases, and contribute to the demand for improved environmental performance from industry and other sources.

The bloc's proposed greenhouse gas curb will be studied closely by China, the US and other major emitters ahead of a global climate summit in Paris next year that aims to agree on the first new emissions - cutting treaty since the Kyoto protocol in 1997.

Developed countries-most notably Australia - do not want to continue the KP because it doesn't include major emitters like the United States and China.

The United States and European Union had pushed for major emitters — and particularly governments of G - 20 nations — to unveil their plans by the end of March.

«The president is under increasing pressure to gain emissions reductions from China and other major emitters in order to justify US domestic mitigation policy.

Having now endorsed Obama's abandonment of the U.N. process, greens have bet all their chips that Obama will show up to the next round of negotiations with major emitters with a domestic cap in hand.

«It is also critical that the U.S. show leadership in cutting emissions if we are to compel other major emitters like China to do so,» Bledsoe said.

Bledsoe sees signs of meaningful progress by major emitters such as China.

India's reply was consistent: perhaps we haven't made ourselves clear enough, but we are not major emitters — we are an enormous country with a very small per - capita carbon footprint, and to put us at the same level as A1 countries is to undermine the very principles of the Convention and to shift the focus of obligation to developing countries.

As climate negotiations get under way in South Africa, African heads of state put the onus on major emitters

A recent survey of 144 of the world's top economists with expertise on climate change found that 88 % agreed that the benefits of carbon pricing outweigh the costs, and over 94 % agreed the US should reduce its GHG emissions if other major emitters also commit to reductions (which many already have, particularly in Europe):

We also provide tools to explore other dimensions of climate policy, including countries» Paris Agreement mitigation contributions, projections of emissions from major emitters through 2100, and various dimensions of climate equity.

Rather, he said, the discussion should be among major emitters of the past, present and future.

CO2 is a key greenhouse gas leading to anthropogenic climate change, with cities around the world as major emitters of CO2.

And the only way we're going to achieve large global emissions cuts is if major emitters like the USA and Australia lead the way in reducing their emissions.

Last October, a group of powerful Republican and Democrat senators introduced the McCain - Lieberman Bill to the US Senate (as an amendment to the Climate Stewardship Act) that would have required major emitters in the USA to adhere to mandatory, economy - wide emission caps.

By Friday, the draft negotiating text had swelled to 60 pages, threatening a reprise of the build - up to the chaotic Copenhagen Summit in 2009, when divisions between major emitters meant world leaders had no workable draft to agree as a climate treaty.

Harper would officially follow suit almost 11 years later, but the two used almost identical arguments, arguing Kyoto was toothless because it did not include major emitters such as China and India.

The bigger deadlock remains, however, with the once and future major emitters of greenhouse gases — the United States and China — still locked in the old Alphonse and Gaston routine, each offering the other the opportunity to step first.

The process works on a rolling basis, with the US one of 18 nations currently undergoing review along with other major emitters Russia and Japan.

The accord starts to move away from the artificial distinction between developed versus developing countries towards one of major emitters versus everyone else.

However, several populous major emitters (e.g. United Kingdom, China, and Brazil) were no longer categorised as free riders.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

Victims of climate impacts could sue major emitters or negligent companies.

However, the prospect for such an agreement in Cancun that covers all the world's major emitters appears remote.

The agreement, reached in December 2015, already has support from other major emitters led by China, the United States and India.

There's a cap on carbon, and a fee on carbon, and «compliance flexibility for major emitters,» but it's not clear how all those pieces work together.

In the last two rounds of annual climate talks, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Cancún, Mexico, more than 80 countries — including major emitters not bound by the Kyoto protocol like Brazil, China, Indonesia and the US — pledged voluntary targets.

Fundamental differences between developed and developing countries on how countries are classified appear as entrenched as ever, with major emitters and negotiating blocs adopting familiar positions.

It promised billions of dollars in climate financing for developing nations, but did not require deeper emissions cuts by major emitters.

Mr. Bush tried to increase the pressure on the big emerging powers by starting a parallel set of talks to the United Nations negotiations involving only «major economies» (a polite way of saying major emitters).

The Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate greenhouse gases from major emitters.

On the other hand, a carbon price needn't be so simplistic — automatic triggers could be included to change the price if certain events happen, such as including a trigger requiring a higher tax when global CO2 concentrations exceed a certain level or, alternatively, when other major emitters like China adopt policies of their own.»

National green leaders, who had spent the previous year insisting that progress toward capping U.S. carbon emissions would ensure the successful conclusion of a global emissions - reduction agreement in Copenhagen, pretended like they'd never suggested that the United Nation's climate change conference could ever achieve such an outcome and praised Obama for ditching the United Nations and striking out to reach an agreement — any agreement — among major emitters.

As for other major emitters, current submissions continue to put international pressure on all countries to contribute meaningfully to a global agreement by the end of 2015.

Major emitters should be required to adopt national strategies for forest emission reductions before joining, while countries with less emissions should be allowed into the markets immediately.

Even a potentially groundbreaking decision reached in Durban, South Africa, in December to begin negotiating a new global agreement that could see all major emitters cutting carbon won't take effect until 2020.

Cement is a major emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas, so the authors suggested that wood products or others with lower emissions than cement be considered where cement has traditionally been used.

The conference agreed that by 2015 governments would finalise a «protocol, legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force» that would impose targets on all major emitters, rich and poor.

After all, some studies have shown that major emitters like China or the U.S. could get all their energy from renewables, such as wind or solar.

A deal that sees all major emitters cutting greenhouse gases will be key to driving the needed global investment in low - carbon growth, the commission argues, calling it a «powerful macroeconomic policy instrument» that will send clear signals to businesses and investors.

«Indonesia is one of the major emitters in the world, and this year it's likely to be even more than usual,» because of the raging fires burning carbon - rich peat lands.