Trends in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Emissions Intensity in the United States and Other High-Emitting Nations
In a letter report to the Ranking Members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, the U.S. General Accounting Office examines how greenhouse gas emissions and the “emissions intensity” of the United States and the nine nations with the next-highest emissions changed from 1980 to 2000; how such emissions and the emissions intensities of the same nations are expected to change between 2001 and 2025; and how meeting the administration’s goal of reducing emissions intensity by 18 percent may affect cumulative U.S. emissions between 2002 and 2012.
This Summary Last Modified On: 8/2/2012