Sentences with phrase «one's per capita emissions»

Per capita emissions of greenhouse gases for various 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.

Low income countries would gain substantially, because of their low per capita emissions.

It's a similar story for all countries with above - average per capita emissions.

Assuming per capita emissions remain roughly where they are today, those 2 billion poor people will only boost the developing world's share of greenhouse gas emissions from 7 to 11 percent.

Historical per capita emissions and capacity to act have been neglected during negotiations.

We are doing total emissions, not per capita emissions.

They have caused most of the buildup of gases to date, and they have the largest per capita emissions, the greatest wealth and the most technology.

In the words of the court: Dutch per capita emissions are one of the highest in the world and any reduction of emissions contributes to the prevention of dangerous climate change.

Economic growth in developing countries is likely to mean growing per capita emissions, though the increase can be limited by investment in low - carbon technologies.

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.

These include: progressive cuts relative to historic levels; equal per capita emissions, historic responsibility, and ability to pay; and preserving future development opportunities.

[104] Projected annual per capita emissions in developed country regions remained substantially lower (2.8 — 5.1 tonnes CO2) than those in developed country regions (9.6 — 15.1 tonnes CO2).

The reason why per capita emissions from an intercontinental flight are counted in the many tonnes of CO2 is the enormous distances covered: no one drives from London to Sydney.

India's per capita emissions as of 2012, the last year for which figures are available, were 1.68 tons per year, and its 2014 GDP was $ 1,631 per person.

Annual per capita emissions in the industrialized countries are typically as much as ten times the average in developing countries.

So even if we reduce per capita emissions by 70 %, with 1 billion people, our overall emissions will be unreduced.

We've recently conducted a study looking at household electricity use and transport across seven different income ranges and discovered that a relatively small, wealthy class (1 % of the population) is hidden by the 823 million poor of the country who keep overall per capita emissions below 2 tonnes of CO2 a year.

China recently passed the United States as the largest overall greenhouse gas emitter, though U.S. per capita emissions still far exceed China's.

The current disparity in per capita emissions between developing and developed countries is much larger than this, meaning it would take a lot for both developed and developing countries to reach these levels.

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.

Although per capita emissions in India, China, and other rapidly industrializing countries will remain far below those in Europe and America for years to come, these emerging giants will account for nearly 75 percent of primary energy growth by 2030.

«Climate action by the G20 has reached a turning point, with per capita emissions falling in 11 members, and renewable energy growing strongly,» the group said in a statement.

Over the past quarter century, G20 carbon dioxide emissions had risen by almost 50 percent while per capita emissions had gained by about 18 percent, reflecting population growth, it said.

Try telling India to leave its coal in the ground after examining the latest data on per capita emissions of carbon dioxide from the Global Carbon Project, released yesterday — with India's billion - plus citizens at 1.9 tons of CO2 emitted per person per year, the European Union and China tied (for the moment) at around 7 tons and the United States at 16.4 tons:

«It doesn't seem much because per capita emission for the world right now is approximately 2 tons average,» said Siddharth Pathak, a leading Indian campaigner for Greenpeace.

And so, for the 10 reasons above, the C&C should be adopted by the international community not withstanding the legitimate need to consider other issues relevant to distributive justice in setting ghg emissions reduction targets including levels of historical emissions and financial ability of poor nations to comply with per capita emissions limitations.

Anyway, Chinese per capita emissions are so far smaller than the West's that to curb their development would be grossly unfair.

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.

Estimated per capita emissions (Fig. 12) are based on population estimates for 2009 — 2011.

Here are some reactions, including a graph from my lectures showing what global C emissions would look like if all countries per capita emissions were shared globally, along the lines presented by Andy:

Allocating ghg emissions on an equal per capita emissions basis is consistent with the virtually universally recognized ethical idea that all people should treat others as they wish to be treated.

Asia especially has witnessed rapid growth in energy use and emissions over that period, driven by its fast - paced economic development — yet per capita emissions of industrialised countries remain much higher.

So wealthy people in the US produce 10 times more per capita emissions than the wealthy in China.

What started out as an ambitious, global scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — a concept known as «Contraction and Convergence,» whose goal was to equalize per capita emissions around the world by requiring developed nations to cut down on