Sentences with phrase «other big emitters»

The other big emitters are the United States at 14 percent, the European Union at 10 percent, and India at six percent, the Global Carbon Project report says.

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.

Clearly Kyoto will not do as the mitigation centerpiece of the climate regime, unless the other big emitters are willing to join or rejoin.

Not exact matches

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.

If the US, the world's biggest CO2 emitter, won't even join the other developed countries, leverage with India and China is drastically reduced.

In January 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new website that identifies most of the nation's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases.

Anybody who can do basic arithmetic could have figured that out for themselves: the biggest emitter is China — less than 30 % of the global total — the second - biggest is the US — under 20 % — and no other single nation accounts for even 10 %.

Some developing countries have been asking for a separate framework that would allow them to seek compensation from the biggest emitters for loss of property, land, and other damages associated with global warming.

The agreement to collaborate ahead of next year's talks between China, the developing world's largest emitter, and the United States, the developed world's biggest greenhouse gas producer, could send a powerful signal to other developing countries to clean up their act.

It relies heavily on offsets — theoretical carbon reductions bought from other countries or other industries — so that big US emitters will not need to try so hard.

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol requires modest emission cutbacks by industrial countries but not the United States, the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases, because it rejected Kyoto.

In fact, it is popular wisdom, that the US and China are the big elephants in the room, or in other words, the world's biggest emitters of CO2.

The other thing to note is that China and India are galumphing their way up the table of biggest carbon dioxide emitters.

New York University, for example, may rank as a big emitter in New York, but a year ago it opened a co-generation facility that makes electricity and uses the waste heat to heat and cool buildings, thus doing far more work per pound of carbon dioxide emitted than most other sources.

To address this threat to competitiveness, the Leach panel recommended that some of the revenues collected through the carbon tax — at least $ 2.5 billion, by some estimates — be returned to big emitters by way of a subsidy tied to how much they produce, whether it's barrels of oil or kilowatts of electricity or some other sector - specific output.