China's emissions estimates don't add up

Nature: When Dabo Guan was studying the sources of carbon dioxide that were driving China to become the world's top emitter of global-warming gases, he came across a puzzling mismatch: adding up the emissions estimates from China's 30 provinces and municipalities gave a figure much higher than those reported for the nation as a whole1. This week in Nature Climate Change, Guan, an expert in sustainability science at the University of Leeds, UK, and his colleagues compare provincial aggregates with national...

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