Sentences with phrase «other major emitters in»

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«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.

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.

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.

One thing that would be very important is, it would have some impact because we're a major emitter, but perhaps more importantly it would signal to other countries that the largest economy in the world had the resolve to do it.

Creating incentives in the United States for clean technologies will help drive down the prices of these technologies, making them much easier for China and other major emitters to adopt.

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.

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):