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Publicly acknowledging that the US “has been the largest historic emitter of greenhouse gases,” she declared that the America “must lead efforts to cut harmful emissions and build a lower carbon-economy.”
Another Pew survey showed that China, the world's biggest emitter, cares even less than the US about global warming.
For example, China is already the world’s largest energy consumer and the largest emitter of carbon dioxide.
In 2007, China surpassed the US as the world’s leading CO2 emitter.
The coal industry is not safe even in China, the world’s largest CO2 emitter and a leading source of demand for fossil fuels.
If the beef and dairy industries were a country, it would be the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind only the United States and China.
America’s differentiated responsibilities start with the fact that the US is, by far, the largest cumulative greenhouse-gas emitter in the world.
But that is largely due to its natural-gas boom, and the US is still the world’s second-largest per capita emitter.
And many are understandably perturbed that the world’s poorest suffer disproportionately, while the United States, the planet’s second-largest emitter of carbon dioxide, seems to be shirking its responsibilities.
With the United States, the world’s largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, dismissive of the accord, the rest of the global community must reaffirm its commitment to reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
If these companies were a country, they would be the world’s seventh-largest emitter.
This year, China surpassed the US as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
Given that China currently is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, it clearly has an outsize role to play.
If you were a major emitter in the past, then for the next generation you are given a property right to very valuable emissions permits whose worth will only rise over time.
China may be the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in absolute terms (behind the US), but its per capita emissions are those of an emerging economy that is still far behind.
The fact that the US, the world’s largest economy and emitter of greenhouse gases – in absolute numbers and in per capita terms - is taking cover behind the largest emerging country with regard to climate policy does not bode well for the future.
Beyond being the world’s largest CO2 emitter, China is the world’s leading consumer of coal, accounting for 52% of global use.
The United States, where a major political party is dominated by climate-change deniers, is the highest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases and the only country refusing to adhere to the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
The scope for doing so is large, given that China is the world’s largest polluter and CO2 emitter on an annual basis.
Consider India, which accounts for 7% of annual global GHG emissions, making it the world’s fourth-largest emitter, after China (27%), the US (15%), and the European Union (10%).
After decades of rapid growth that has eliminated mass poverty, China has become the world’s leading emitter of CO2 (though only half of America’s emissions per person).
To those accustomed to hearing that China is the world’s largest greenhouse-gas (GHG) emitter, these recommendations may come as a surprise.
First, we hear constantly from politicians and the media that China is the “largest emitter,” which, though true, is not the whole truth.
If it succeeds, the country will have gone, in less than 40 years, from being the world’s largest CO2 emitter to bringing its emissions into balance.
As matters stand, the shipping sector, ranked alongside countries, is the world’s sixth-largest greenhouse-gas (GHG) emitter.
But the United States, the world’s largest economy and the second-biggest CO2 emitter, is the elephant in the room – and Xi doubtless made his climate pledge with America in mind.
China, meanwhile, is the world’s largest CO2 emitter, accounting for almost 30% of the global total.
Finally, the construction boom, based on carbon-intensive steel and cement production, drove China’s CO2 emissions from 7.4 gigatons in 2008 to 9.8 gigatons in 2017, making it the world’s biggest emitter.
China, the United States, and the European Union head the CO2 emission rankings, with America being by far the biggest per capita emitter.
Until recently, the world’s best hope for combating global warming was the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which has been signed by 197 parties, including the world’s two largest cumulative emitters of greenhouse gases (the United States and the European Union) and the leading current emitter (China).
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