Sentences with phrase «top emitting countries»

As the world's top emitting countries, efforts by the United States and China to increase cooperation and ambition to reduce carbon pollution are watched closely by other countries, businesses, and communities.

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An article in Scientific American last year titled «Inside a Western Town That Refuses to Quit Coal» said the plant emits nearly 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, earning a spot among the top 20 carbon - producing power plants in the country.

The country also introduced a carbon tax on generation and vehicle emissions, its top two emitting sectors.

So there you are... Top 5 emitters (2007): China, USA, India, Russia, Japan Top 5 per capita emitters (2006, ignoring small countries emitting less than 0.5 % of the world total which would other crowd the list): USA, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Khazakstan

Because of these deforestation emissions, Indonesia and Brazil are ranked third and fourth among the top greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting countries.

Greenhouse gas emissions are spread highly unevenly across the world's countries (Fig. 1), with the top ten GHG emitting countries generating > 60 % of total emissions, and three countries, China (21.1 %), the United States of America (14.1 %) and India (5.2 %) being by far the largest contributors.

The top six emitting countries, including the EU - 27 block, are responsible for 70 % of total global emissions and the top 25 emitting countries more than 80 % of total emissions.

To solve this problem, Stiglitz (along with many other top climate experts) points out that a global price commitment would exert an identical pressure to reduce emission without requiring poor countries to emit less than rich countries.

Nine of the top 10 carbon dioxide emitting countries in 2010 have more than enough offshore wind energy potential to meet all their current electricity needs.

«(iii) by country, annual total, annual per capita, and cumulative anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases for the top 50 emitting nations;

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

In a 2009 study of world wind resources, Harvard University scientists concluded that the top 10 carbon dioxide - emitting countries could satisfy all of their electricity needs using wind alone.

Global greenhouse gas emissions for the top six emitting countries and regions (excluding land use, land use change and forestry), and international transport emissions and land use, land use change and forestry emission.

When the differences between the two estimates were summed, without regard to sign, the difference for the top 5 emitting countries was larger than the sum of the differences for the remaining 190 countries.

IMF recommends eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, and adding a carbon price in the top 20 emitting countries.

Potential Annual Wind Power Contribution to Electricity Needs in Top Ten Carbon Dioxide - Emitting Countries

In 2009, the annual top ten emitting countries accounted for about two - thirds of the world's annual energy - related CO2 emissions.

Based on annual emissions data from the year 2004, and on a per - capita consumption basis, the top - 5 emitting countries were found to be (in tCO2 per person, per year): Luxembourg (34.7), the US (22.0), Singapore (20.2), Australia (16.7), and Canada (16.6).