China and Australia top 'carbon bomb' list

Guardian: China and Australia top a global list of planned oil, gas and coal projects that will act as "carbon bombs" and push the planet towards catastrophic climate change, a Greenpeace report warned on Tuesday. The Point of No Return study, by consultancy firm Ecofys for Greenpeace, calculated that the 14 giant fossil fuel projects would produce 6.3 gigatonnes of CO2 a year in 2020 – as much as the entire United States emits annually. The largest contributors will be China's five north-western provinces,...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/22/china-australia-carbon-bomb
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