The polluter should pay.
China is the world's biggest polluter.
America, the world's biggest consumer, is the world's biggest polluter.
The steel mill is the city’s major polluter.
Certain industry is major polluter of the environment.
But not every polluter has upstanding Norwegians investing in it, or holds its AGM in London.
The province of Alberta is Canada's top polluter as of May 2007.
India (a much smaller polluter) has steadfastly resisted binding targets for poor countries.
The right response to an externality of this kind is to tax it-to make the polluter pay.
Still, in their muddled and heavy-handed way, governments are groping towards the idea of making the polluter pay by internalising the cost of responsible waste disposal.
Among industrialised countries, the report warned the United States, the No. 2 polluter, would still fall short even if it fulfilled itsCopenhagen promises.
China, for example, is often portrayed in Western media as the uncaring uber-polluter of the future, because of its massive coal-fired power-station programme.
India has not met its energy growth targets even in the absence of carbon constraints - can we realistically expect it to moderate due to global concerns when it will say it is not the prime polluter?
It's also nuclear powered which means low carbon emissions, but, of course, it's a risky polluter if anything goes wrong — just one of the many paradoxes of Arctic ecology.
This accounts for more than 3% of all emissions in England, and if the NHS was a country it would have been ranked as the 81st biggest polluter in the world that year, between Estonia and Bahrain.
