Excerpt from: China Supply Chain and Logistics Strategy
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| March 13, 2008 | | Some studies suggest that China has surpassed United States and became the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide | Carbon emission has always been blamed as the cause for global warming. The world’s 20 major greenhouse gas emitting nations, also known as the G20, will meet in Japan on Friday. Climate change, clean energy, and sustainable development will be the major topics for discussion. The Journal Environmental Economics and Management released an article on the current situation in China to prepare for the meeting. Researchers at the University of California (UC) Berkeley and UC San Diego expect China’s carbon emission to grow at a minimum of 11 percent annually between 2004 and 2010 – total of six hundred million is expected by 2010. This is still far more than the 116 million carbon emission reduced by the developed countries under the Kyoto Protocol by the completion of the first phase. The UC Berkeley assistant professor of agricultural and resource economics Maximillian Auffhammer stated that “It has been expected that the efficiency of China’s power generation would continue to improve as per-capita income increased, slowing down the rate of CO2 emissions growth. What we’re finding instead is that the emissions growth rate is surpassing out worst expectations, and that means the goal of stabilizing atmospheric CO2 is going to be much, much harder to achieve.” | | |
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