The high moisture content is the key reason why the state's three major power stations are collectively regarded as the dirtiest carbon emitters in the world.

In the absence of federal climate change regulation, states have brought public nuisance suits against carbon emitters and the EPA.

Indonesia is also the world's third largest carbon emitter, largely as a result of deforestation and the burning of peatlands.

Indonesia is currently the world's third largest carbon emitter, to a large extent due to the destruction of its ancient peat swamp forests (Pearce 2007).

The United States is no longer the world's largest carbon emitter; that honor belongs to China.

They cannot be taking it seriously if China, the world's second largest economy and largest carbon emitter, doesn't have to do anything.

If the runway was constructed it would have made Heathrow the largest carbon emitter in the UK.

But big carbon emitters like China and the Soviet Union might ignore their obligations, undermining the whole logic of collective action.

China is now the world's largest producer of carbon emissions and Inda's fast catching up as its the 4th largest carbon emitter.

It is also estimated to be the third largest carbon emitter in the world, mainly from deforestation.