claim: Australia’s signed a suicide note [with the Paris Accord] yet didn’t seem to notice that China, India, Indonesia and the US did not commit to reducing their large carbon dioxide emissions.
evidences.evidence_id: Climate change mitigation:352
evidences.article: Climate change mitigation
evidences.evidence: Countries that ratified the Kyoto protocol committed to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases, or engage in emissions trading if they maintain or increase emissions of these gases.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Energy policy of China:24
evidences.article: Energy policy of China
evidences.evidence: The plan did not include targets for carbon dioxide emission reductions, but it has been estimated that, if fully implemented, China's annual emissions of greenhouse gases would be reduced by 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2010.
evidences.votes: REFUTES REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Paris Agreement:12
evidences.article: Paris Agreement
evidences.evidence: This strategy involved energy and climate policy including the so-called 20/20/20 targets, namely the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 20%, the increase of renewable energy's market share to 20%, and a 20% increase in energy efficiency.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Paris Agreement:168
evidences.article: Paris Agreement
evidences.evidence: Institutional asset owners associations and think-tanks have also observed that the stated objectives of the Paris Agreement are implicitly "predicated upon an assumption – that member states of the United Nations, including high polluters such as China, the US, India, Russia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Indonesia and Mexico, which generate more than half the world's greenhouse gas emissions, will somehow drive down their carbon pollution voluntarily and assiduously without any binding enforcement mechanism to measure and control CO 2 emissions at any level from factory to state, and without any specific penalty gradation or fiscal pressure (for example a carbon tax) to discourage bad behaviour."
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Paris Agreement:240
evidences.article: Paris Agreement
evidences.evidence: "U.S. and China announce steps to join the Paris accord that set nation-by-nation targets for cutting carbon emissions".
evidences.votes: REFUTES REFUTES