Thursday, November 29, 2012

China's emissions may keep rising until 2030 - report

Irish Times: China`s greenhouse gas emissions -- already the world`s highest -- may not peak until 2030 and by then they would amount to half of the "carbon budget" needed to limit global warming at 2 degrees Celsius. That`s the principal finding of a new report by the HSBC bank`s Climate Change Centre, released as delegates representing 194 countries meet in Doha, Qatar, for the UN`s 18th annual climate change conference. Wai-Shin Chan and Nick Robins, head of centre, said they believed China "is still...

URL: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/1129/1224327258191.html

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