Sentences with phrase «third highest emitter»

This would be fairer and beneficial for China, the leading current emitter and third highest emitter historically.

Not exact matches

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.

Brazil, for example, has reduced its deforestation - related emissions by two - thirds in just six years, and Indonesia, a large emitter of global warming pollution because of high rates of deforestation, has pledged to cut overall emissions by more than 25 percent by 2020.

If you included emissions from deforestation into national greenhouse gas emissions (which isn't always done, but probably should...) Indonesia is the world's third - highest emitter — India is if you don't take into account deforestation emissions.