In 2010, these 76 countries were collectively responsible for 85% of annual global emissions.
They will then have to buy and surrender allowances each year equal to their annual emissions or face financial penalties.
He also said that some companies might have changed the way they estimated their annual emissions.
This is equivalent to the annual emissions from 58,000 cars.
Policy users typically are interested in annual total emission only.
To make the reductions on its own, the company would have to pay $200,000 per ton of annual emissions.
But Japanese press reports said today that the radioactivity appeared to amount to about 8 percent of the plant's annual emissions.
First, the program offers you an opportunity to report your annual emissions of greenhouse gases.
This divides a country's total annual emissions by its mid-year population.
The Member States are therefore still responsible for reporting the data on annual emissions.