World Emissions May Peak Amid China Green Push, Germanwatch Says
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Global carbon-dioxide emissions from energy may peak this decade because of China’s efforts to cut pollutants, Bonn-based research group Germanwatch said.
China, which accounted for about four-fifths of the growth in annual CO2 emissions in 2002-2012, is adding renewable power and boosting energy efficiency as it expands climate-protection measures, Germanwatch Director Christoph Bals said today in Warsaw. “There is a real opportunity and possibility that there is a plateau or peak of global emissions in this decade.”