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Despite China improved energy efficiency, rapid growth is still leading to increased CO2 emissions
2014-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: Dabo Guan, a professor of economics at the University of East Anglia, says despite Chinas pledge, rapid economic growth in China means carbon emissions will still keep rising. Carbon intensity is not an absolute measure, its a relative measure. Its CO2 divided by GDP," Guan explains. "So there are two ways to reduce this figure: one way is to actually reduce CO2; the other way is to enlarge GDP. Reducing CO2 requires expensive technological improvements and takes a long time. So most of...
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