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China outsources carbon emissions
2013-06-11 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: China is outsourcing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions within its own borders, a study has found. This is much like the way in which rich countries in the West have long turned to China to produce cheap goods, thereby outsourcing dirty emissions. Poorer areas such as Inner Mongolia produced 80% of CO2-related emissions for goods used in richer coastal areas such as Beijing and Shanghai. The scientists, writing in PNAS, are concerned this trend will spread. That is, if China continues to...
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