Sentences with phrase «more emitters»

The cap will decline every three years through 2035, gradually covering more emitters.

Not exact matches

The province requires emitters of more than 100,000 tonnes of GHGs per year to meet mandatory reduction targets.

In contrast to Alberta's largely cosmetic Specified Gas Emitters Regulation that does little to curb emissions or raise revenue for the province, British Columbia has implemented a much more comprehensive carbon tax.

China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is determined to rebalance its energy mix, and incorporate more clean energy.

These would be even more expensive than just reducing greenhouse gas emissions (and carry other risks which are hard to calculate), but that cost would not be paid by the current greenhouse gas emitters, especially if they can convince the public that it's not their fault.

The U.S. has said no, and so there are these kind of two parallel tracks, one negotiating at the successor of, son of Kyoto and one negotiating whatever kind of deal [would] bring in more countries, not just the U.S. but also developing countries like China and India that have become big emitters.

It is imperative that big emitters improve their performance in this regard and governments provide more incentives to make this happen.»

At a news briefing in the Chinese capital on Wednesday, the NDRC's Xie welcomed the closer partnership of the world's top two CO2 emitters, but said more was needed in areas such as technological cooperation.

While as a proof - of - concept the research group built a more energy - efficient incandescent light bulb, the same approach could also be used to improve the performance of other hot thermal emitters, including thermo - photovoltaic devices.

As exciting as these wildlife changes have been, Hey notes that potentially more important is a change in the environment's chemistry — a change that has turned the wetland from a net emitter of nitrates to an eliminator of these pollutants.

Emerging economies like Saudi Arabia and China, the world's top emitter, want rich countries to commit to doing more to cut greenhouse gas output while allowing poorer nations to burn more fossil fuels to build their economies and end poverty.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

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.

«We combine the thermal emitter and solar reflector into one device, making it both higher performance and much more robust and practically relevant.

Alongside the latest Carbon Budget is the launch of the Carbon Atlas - a new online platform showing the world's biggest carbon emitters more clearly than ever before.

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.

What's more surprising is that the US — historically, the world's biggest emitter — actually seems to be walking the walk.

But coal provides more than half of the electricity used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

India is already the world's fourth - largest emitter of carbon dioxide after China, the United States and the European Union, releasing more than 2 billion metric tons in 2013.

«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.

More ambitious goals from these relatively large emitters could bring the world closer to the 2 °C goal.

The Paris climate talks are a little more than two months away and most of the world's big carbon emitters have submitted their climate pledges.

A third of food is wasted, making it third - biggest carbon emitter, UN says ROME, Sept 11 (Reuters)-- The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday... http://www.pointcarbon.com/news/reutersnews/1.2564792

Leaning heavily on more IPCC quotes, Boutrous showed slides and statistics saying that climate change is a global problem that doesn't differentially affect the West Coast of North America and isn't caused by any one emitter.

Satellites have shown that some active galaxies are also strong emitters of gamma - rays, an even more highly energetic form of light.

The study concludes that super emitters are widespread and unpredictable, but easily identified through better and more frequent monitoring.

The world's biggest carbon emitters agreed that the world should limit warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, and raise $ 100 billion annually by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change.

1 / Infra - red emitter: this allows the Galaxy Note 10.1 to interact with legacy audio / video devices like TV, HiFi, Set - top boxes and more.

If more heat is required than a heat pad can provide, ceramic heat emitters are an ideal choice as both a primary or secondary heat source.

So to maintain energy balance the stratosphere must be losing energy via long wavelength radiation which means long wavelength emitters like CO2 must be radiating more than they are absorbing.

Leaning heavily on more IPCC quotes, Boutrous showed slides and statistics saying that climate change is a global problem that doesn't differentially affect the West Coast of North America and isn't caused by any one emitter.

The lowest emitters, more than two billion people, get a pass.

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.

The UP is not only absorbing more heat from below, but we've added an IR emitter, CO2, to the UP layers, and so it can rid itself of more heat.»

There are a more than two ways to define the top emitters.

My guess is that if the Australian program sticks — it remains controversial, and others on this email can comment more about that — then Australia will be a leader in trying to get some coherent international strategy that includes China, the US and other big emitters.

It is true that airplanes are serious emitters of CO2 and other pollutants, but building more public transportation, as Wang Suya suggests, is not the simple answer.

V. Expand bilateral engagement: Engaging more than 50 partner countries on clean energy, sustainable landscapes, and adaptation, including the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the developing world.

While carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and the United States has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent (compared to 2005) by 2025 as part of the Paris Agreement, other countries, such as China (the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases), are committed to releasing more carbon dioxide as they grow their economies through 2030 as part of the Paris Agreement.

China, the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases from coal, has been burning up to 17 per cent more coal per year than the government previously disclosed, according to newly released data.

Moreover, even those programs that have been implemented as claimed have, for the most part, proved singularly ineffective, especially the much - touted Greenhouse Challenge Program which, in the end, is little more than a tax - payer funded PR exercise for some of Australia's biggest emitters.

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.

Two major emitters, China and India, were exempted from the Protocols, thus rendering it even more idiotic than it already was.

Global negotiators might, for instance, decide to go after the emitters of certain greenhouse gases that are more potent than carbon dioxide — gases produced particularly by companies that make chemicals.

The opportunity, Navarro Llanos said, was that since countries like hers had done almost nothing to send emissions soaring, they were in a position to declare themselves «climate creditors,» owed money and technology support from the large emitters to defray the hefty costs of coping with more climate - related disasters, as well as to help them develop on a green energy path.

New York Times BEIJING — China, the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases from coal, has been burning up to 17 percent more coal a year than the government previously disclosed, according to newly released data.

Because the impacts of GHG emissions can be felt beyond a country's border, and the impacts of climate change on countries are highly variable, there is potential for some emitters to contribute more or less to the causes of climate change than is proportionate to their vulnerability to its effects9, 10,11.

«As one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the Australian energy sector, TRUenergy faces a more difficult challenge than most to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

If party A (greenhouse gas emitters) is harming party B (those harmed by greenhouse gas emissions), the contention that protecting the property rights of B will cost A more than it will benefit B should not encourage principled libertarians at the Cato Institute to green - light rights violations.