"emitters" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe a device or a material that emits radiation, light, sound, warmth, etc. For example, "The radio station has powerful emitters that allow it to broadcast across long distances."
Among the world's top 10 emitters, Germany was ranked the highest at 22. Australia was second bottom overall, above Saudi Arabia – which was not classified as industrial.
News began filtering through of the deal between the leaders of the world's top two emitters of greenhouse gases – the United States and China.
The world's two largest emitters – the United States and China – joined other countries in challenging Australia about its emissions reduction target and commitment to renewables.
While the proposal is certainly interesting for differentiating among developing countries, it still may leave major emitters such as Brazil and China off the hook, by allowing them to set targets that are not measured in absolute reductions for the post-2020 period.
The CCPI report, produced by the thinktank Germanwatch and Climate Action Network Europe, covers the top 58 emitters of greenhouse gases in the world and about 90% of all energy-related emissions.
While other big emitters, such as the EU, China and the US, start showing their cards on the climate table and betting big on renewables, Brazil seems to be holding itself back.
Bilateral and multilateral deals with other big emitters of greenhouse gases might be possible, not just on carbon emissions but also on pollutants with shorter-term warming effects.
But the largest greenhouse-gas emitters either did not ratify the Kyoto protocol (America) or were not obliged by it to cut emissions (China and India).
FIVE years ago next month, disagreement between America and China, the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, scuppered the UN's Copenhagen climate-change conference.
The two countries need to act on a broad economic agenda from global warming (real progress is impossible without co-operation between the world's two biggest carbon emitters) to funding the expansion of the International Monetary Fund (China has yet to come up with any cash and Congress has not authorised the $100 billion promised by the Obama administration).
