China alone is responsible for 75% of the growth in global emissions since 2000.
This should provide for a more accurate estimate of the 2010 drought's contribution to global emissions.
These account for 20 per cent of global emissions and were excluded from current mechanisms.
Governments will have to grapple with tough choices under any global emissions policy strategy.
She said the suspension was due to progress being made in negotiations on a global emissions deal.
Because they often burn high sulfur fuels, they produce about 50% of the global emissions of sulfur dioxide.
While not all of these will be developed, even a fraction of them would drive up global emissions.
So now, G8 leaders will try to persuade some major developing countries to halve global emissions by 2050.
Since it was negotiated in 1997 global emissions have risen by over a quarter, mostly in developing countries.
In 2000, U.S. emissions totaled 5.9 billion metric tons, while global emissions totaled 23.7 billion metric tons.
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Global emissions have risen by 25% since 2000, while U.S. emissions have declined.
The transport sector is a principal source of global emissions of greenhouse gases.
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions declined 10 percent during the past decade, yet global emissions rose by more than 30 percent.
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By 2010, however, U.S. emissions fell to 5.6 billion metric tons, while global emissions rose to 31.8 billion metric tons.
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And the government has recognised that if you are trying to cut global emissions of carbon, it's futile driving away firms to pollute somewhere else.
That would roughly match global emissions over the past three decades.
According to a report for the U.S. Congress, China and the United States are the leading emitters of greenhouse gases, responsible for about 35% of global emissions.
Most developing and developed nations agree that global emissions need to come down, but few are willing to accept binding cuts without certain (and often conflicting) conditions.
And if global emissions of carbon dioxide are not curtailed then the actual level of the sea by 2100 could be significantly higher than the Ice2Sea estimates.
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There would be no advantage - both for the UK economy and for global emissions reductions - in simply forcing UK businesses to relocate to other countries.
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The debate over the participation of developing countries in the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases, has stalled ratification of the treaty.
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By the end of the decade, U.S. emissions will most likely decline to approximately 12 percent of global emissions, or less than half the U.S. share in 2000.
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In 2001, however, President George Bush withdrew the U.S. -- the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter, responsible for approximately 25% of global emissions -- from the Protocol (Australia also withdrew).
One of the underappreciated aspects of Copenhagen was progress on the question of what can be done about deforestation, which currently accounts for a bit less than 20% of global emissions.
But the UN's Environment Programme reckons that even if all countries honour their existing commitments, global emissions in 2020 would exceed the likeliest total consistent with that pledge by the equivalent of up to 11 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide.
And as the US left the protocol years ago, nations still signed on account only for about 15% of global emissions - which is why there is so much emphasis on a new instrument, with some legal force, covering all countries.
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In this regard and in the context of the ultimate objective of the Convention and the Bali Action Plan, we will work between now and Copenhagen, with each other and under the Convention, to identify a global goal for substantially reducing global emissions by 2050.
Regardless of the future pace of ongoing reductions in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, global carbon dioxide emissions will continue to rise.
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The building and construction industry accounts for one third of global carbon emissions, and it is estimated that buildings consume 30% to 40% of global energy.
But politicians in California say requiring cuts in global warming emissions will help the state's economy.
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