Sentences with phrase «major emitters of»

A last example is that the Agreement requires industrialised nations like the United States to provide significant financial support to developing countries, many of which rank among the world's major emitters of carbon dioxide.

If the major emitters of greenhouse gases find it hard to agree on setting caps on emissions now, what makes you think the world can agree to injecting aerosols in the stratosphere as a solution?

For most, this means just joining in encouraging the major emitters of the world to ramp down.

From there, several groups and individuals of the Church joined the global movement to fight the major emitters of greenhouse gases: fossil fuels.

The US has historically been one of the major emitters of greenhouse gases (although China is usurping that dubious honor), so the EIA annual emissions tally is keenly watched.

Most of the report consists of a series of analyses of 12 countries that are major emitters of greenhouse gases (Australia, Canada, China, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States).

Unfortunately, Australia's plan, like Europe's, gave away far too much to major emitters of CO2 and does far too little to reduce emissions, aiming for a 5 percent cut in carbon by 2020, with uncertainty as to how deep the cuts may be beyond then.

The caps would apply to all major emitters of CO2 (defined as those responsible for more than 10,000 metric tonnes of CO2 per annum) and emitters of other industrial greenhouse gases.

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.

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

«(ii) the state or province by itself is a major emitter of greenhouse gases from tropical deforestation on a scale commensurate to the emissions of other countries; and

Coal burning is also a major emitter of carcinogens and mercury, a potent neurotoxin.

Agriculture has become a major emitter of greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — which are now responsible for 19 % of total global emissions.

«(ii) the state or province by itself is a major emitter of greenhouse gases from tropical deforestation on a scale commensurate to the emissions of other countries; and

The country, a major emitter of greenhouse gases, chiefly through deforestation in its third - largest tropical forests, has now agreed to accept international help.

Not exact matches

So even though the Conservatives are not even close to finishing regulating emitters — they still have to do oil and gas, and several other major sectors — the costs are already well above the $ 20 billion Harper accuses Mulcair's plan of costing.

It would apply the «polluter - pay» principle not just to the 700 largest industrial emitters but to all major sources of greenhouse gases.

The major industrial emitters at refineries, cement plants, and steel mills could be required (or induced through taxation) to capture their CO2 emissions or to convert part of their processes to run on power cells and clean electricity.

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.

«HFC 23 emitters can earn almost twice as much from the CDM credits as they can from selling refrigerant gases — by any measure a major distortion of the market,» writes Michael Wara of Stanford University, US, in the journal Nature.

The major industrial emitters could be required (or induced through taxation for tradable permits) to capture their CO2 emissions or to convert part of their processes to run on power cells and clean electricity.

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 key to sustainable use of natural gas is identifying and halting «super emitters» — valves or hatches that are stuck open, corroded holes in pipes or other major leaks — according to this study.

Fires are a major source of carbon emissions in the Amazon, and scientists are beginning to worry that the region could become a net emitter, instead of a carbon sink.

«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.

One major implication of the IPCC's carbon budget, they said, is that developing countries that are set to surpass the industrialized world as the biggest CO2 emitters during the 21st country will need to cut their emissions sooner than currently planned.

Offsetting your flights is a good place to start, since plane travel is a major emitter but one that most of us can't realistically give up altogether.

This major emitters» process should include, inter alia, national, regional and international policies, targets and plans, in line with national circumstances, an ambitious work program within the UNFCCC, and the development and deployment of climate - friendly technology.

The declaration states: «In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.»

In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.

And yet that is the central issue facing the world at Durban: most non Annex - 1 countries — a category now including such poverty - stricken nations as the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Singapore and so on — insist that a new round of Kyoto is the be-all and end - all, an absolute precondition for any progress towards a truly global deal encompassing all the major emitters.

Or maybe President Bush's parallel effort to extract «aspirational» climate goals from the «major economies» — a polite way of saying major emitters — will be the venue where progress is made.

Second place was scooped up by the U.S. as well, this time for re-opening the Major Emitters (or as they call it, Major Economies) negotiations in the midst of the Bali negotiations, distracting from the process at hand.

The third meeting of the world's «major economies,» in White House parlance — or biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, by another measure — concluded Friday evening in Paris.

If it is China, then all the more reason to support China's low - carbon growth policies, to demand more nuclear / hydro / CCS / wind etc and to work as hard as possible at crafting a truly global emissions treaty that will include targets of some sort for all major emitters.

My print story today assessing the outcome of President Bush's effort to extract climate plans from the «major economies» (aka «major emitters») includes a description by Gwyn Prins of a moment when those imperatives seemed to clash.

This post was held up by the flood of climate news last week out of the «major emitters» meetings in Japan and Washington:

Unlike other countries that have pledged, Russia says its final decision is contingent upon the outcome of the UN climate negotiations, along with the INDCs of other major emitters.

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.

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.

With the world's two major emitters sending their top leaders to Copenhagen with gifts of numerical targets, and with the U.S. successfully engaging India to commit to a successful Copenhagen outcome just as it did with China (see my guest post on Climate Progress on the new U.S. - India Green Partnership), momentum is definitely picking up as with just a week and a half to go before the Copenhagen climate conference begins.

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

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).

If one thinks a little bit about how this might work in practice, the two critical objectives one has to achieve in designing an effective regulatory framework for enforcing major carbon reductions is to ensure that the framework is implemented strictly according to existing regulatory review processes and procedures; and that it fairly distributes the burden of compliance equally among all carbon emitters — which includes of course most all of America's adult population.

The study presents a quantitative analysis of historic records for major carbon dioxide emitters worldwide, over a period starting in the 1850s — at the dawn of the industrial revolution — through 2010.

Take a look at ideas such as those proposed in the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project for the major emitters, and discuss those instead of saying it is just too impossible to be worth any effort.

To resolve this question, leading environmental groups and major U.S. corporations (including some of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters) like American Electric Power and Duke Energy convened a negotiating process through Avoided Deforestation Partners, while the Waxman - Markey legislation was being drafted.

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.

From 1850 to 2011, the five major emitters — the United States, European Union, China, Russian Federation and Japan — together contributed two - thirds of the world's CO2 emissions.

Instead, in the first years after the adoption of climate legislation, emitters will also be able to get credit for conservation activities that are part of state or province efforts to reduce deforestation in cases where those states or provinces themselves are major sources of carbon pollution.