This basic idea has been known for some time now:
China may overtake the United States as the world’s biggest source of
greenhouse gases within months, one of the world’s leading energy
analysts predicted yesterday.
Dr Fatih Birol, chief economist of the
Paris-based International Energy Agency, said the country’s economic
growth had been so fast in 2006 and 2007 that the historic global shift
of climate-changing emissions from west to east which was previously
predicted for 2009 or 2010 could now happen by November.
The change of a year or two makes little difference. It’s as the Stern Review said, what we in Britain do is irrelevant in the face of what China does.
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