Sentences with phrase «world biggest polluters»
3 of the world biggest polluters by 2012 are not affected (China, India, Brazil).
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Fashion is the second largest polluter in the world, right behind Big Oil.
Calling the United States «the biggest polluter and the biggest energy user in the world,» Turner said the country needs to take the lead in ridding itself of coal and oil dependence.
Tyson is the biggest polluter in Arkansas and I don't believe there is a company in the world that promotes real Christianity.
IN because in the fight against climate change, and in a world where some of the biggest players are also the biggest polluters, Europe's nations can only make a difference if we work together.
This documentary captures the crusading president's first year in office, following him as he struggled to win cooperation from the world's biggest carbon polluters at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.
The Obama administration has taken steps to reduce these emissions through bilateral and multilateral agreements with major polluters, including China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, and India.
While six world leaders reiterated their commitment to the Paris accord, US President Trump hedged, saying that the United States — by far the biggest polluter in the G7 — would announce a decision this week.
The Southern Company is the top carbon polluter among U.S. utilities and the eighth - biggest in the world, according to Carbon Monitoring for Action.
China has already overtaken the US as the world's «biggest polluter», a report to be published next month says.
Why should Caribbean countries with relatively low emissions suffer the effects of an environmental tax, in favour of the world's biggest polluter?»
Too many leftist activists are therefore tending to side with the big polluters because they think they're standing in solidarity with the world's poor.
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We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people out there who would be most affected by this.
As the world's second - biggest polluter after China, a move by the U.S. to scrap the accord involving almost 200 nations would pour hundreds of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and speed up the warming trend already taking place.
After all, it was a deal between the world's top polluters — the US is the world's biggest historical polluter while China is [continue reading...]
After all, it was a deal between the world's top polluters — the US is the world's biggest historical polluter while China is its biggest current polluter.
In the 45 or so minutes of ensuing conversation — punctuated by a couple of screaming matches in Mandarin between members of the Chinese delegation that were not translated — the world's biggest carbon polluters, for the first time in history, agreed on a common goal.
How far will fossil fuel industry - funded elected officials go to protect one of the biggest carbon polluters in the world?
China and US are the biggest polluters in the world, with India ranking third, according to the 2015 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) report.
«The challenge facing the world's biggest polluters — The clock is ticking in the race to agree a new treaty to cut the emissions that cause global warming.
As the world's second - biggest carbon polluter, the U.S. emits about 10 times as much greenhouse gas as Mexico, but Mexico's pledge could be the more significant of the two.
China may be the world's biggest polluter, but the country is certainly taking commendable steps towards a cleaner energy future.
In the tight little world of greenhouse lobbying, the Prime Minister saw nothing improper in going to the country's biggest greenhouse polluters to ask them what the Government should do about greenhouse policy, without extending the same opportunity to other industries, not to mention environment groups.
Needless to say, the U.S. — the world's biggest historical climate polluter — is nowhere near fulfilling our moral and legal obligations to help developing countries address climate change.
The fashion industry is now being counted as one of the world's biggest polluters, right behind Big Oil, so making sure you dispose of old clothing properly is an important step toward mitigating its environmental effects.
Just three days before the United States and China, the world's two biggest carbon polluters, signed what could be a ground - breaking agreement to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas pollution, Oliver was telling the La Presse editorial board (in French) that, «I think that people aren't as worried as they were before about global warming of two degrees.
This historic case could set a powerful legal precedent: if we win, one of the world's biggest polluters will have to stop wrecking the climate.
But as long as the rich nations — and their big polluters — dictate the terms of the Paris accord, maintain unhealthy fossil fuel subsidies and refuse to establish a long - term market for renewable energy that includes putting a price on carbon emissions, a world that protects more vulnerable nations, humans, animals and plants from the impacts of climate change will remain a dream.
«Inviting some of the world's biggest polluters to pay for the COP is akin to hiring a fox to guard a hen house,» said Patti Lynn, executive director of Corporate Accountability International.
In other words, an island nation that is flooded by rising seas could potentially seek compensation for the destruction from the world's big polluters.
«While it is good to see a leader of the world's richest country and biggest cumulative polluter finally promise to take actions, after over a decade of refusal to do so, the problem has become much bigger while the US was ignoring it,» he stated.
With such relatively clean air throughout America, how can even reputable news agencies like Reuters continue spreading the well - worn lie that the United States is one of the «biggest polluters» in the world?
«It's not going to happen if we boast about how we're going to scrap international treaties, or have elected officials who are alone in the world in denying climate change, or put our energy and environmental policies in the hands of big polluters,» Mr. Obama said.»
China is the world's top polluter but also its biggest investor in renewable energy and it has pledged to reduce its reliance on carbon - belching coal and clear the toxic smog from its cities
But the world's biggest polluters, the United States and China, remain largely intransigent.
Japan, Canada and Russia refused, saying the accord excludes the world's two biggest polluters, the U.S. and China.
Russia and Ukraine were the two biggest beneficiaries of the JI system, which allowed them to trade emissions reductions units (ERUs) «proving» that carbon cuts had been made, for assigned amount units (AAUs) from rich world polluters, in the exotic lexicon of carbon trading.
Reuters: China and the United States agreed on Wednesday to new limits on carbon emissions starting in 2025, but the pledge by the world's two biggest polluters...
The United States is the world's second biggest greenhouse gas polluter behind China, but its global warming pollution on a per capita basis is nearly five times higher than China's.
In fact, notwithstanding that it is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and one of the top five per - capita polluters, Canada says it won't lift a finger against climate change unless the big emitters in the developing world first commit to taking action.