Green Myth Exposed: China’s CO2 Emissions Jumped By 4% Last Year

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Green Myth Exposed: China’s CO2 Emissions Jumped By 4% Last Year

    Date: 26/01/18
    The New York Times

“The widely reported flattening of China’s emissions while economic growth continued apace was misleading. Emissions had flattened because of the slowed economy.”

DAVOS — Chinese President Xi Jinping galvanised supporters of the climate-change fight last year when he told an audience at the World Economic Forum that the effort “is a responsibility we must assume for future generations.”

This week, as they gather again in Davos for the annual global gabfest, world leaders continue to see China as a major force in that fight.

Yet new figures show a complicating development: China’s emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases may be rising again.

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