New Scientist: There's a gap the size of Japan in China's declared carbon emissions. When researchers added up the emissions declared by each of the 30 provinces in 2010, they found the total was greater than what the country declared as a whole - by the equivalent of 1.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. That's the same amount that Japan - the world's fourth biggest emitter - pumps into the atmosphere each year, and amounts to about 5 per cent of annual global emissions. It's not clear how much of this...
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