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Nov 15, 2007

China and India will dominate uncontrolled world emissions.

China power plant emissions to rise 60 pct by 2017
Retuers: Climate-warming emissions from China's power plants -- already among the world's worst greenhouse polluters -- will rise by some 60 percent in the next decade, a new global database showed on Wednesday. Four Chinese power companies, including the biggest carbon dioxide emitter, Huaneng Power International, were among the top 10 on the database; there were two each from the United States and Germany and one each from South Africa and India. The numbers show that despite ..
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN14480502.html



Dire climate warning linked to China and India
International Herald Tribune: The average global temperature will rise to a devastating level by 2030 if China and India do not begin curbing energy use and carbon emissions immediately, officials of the International Energy Agency predicted Wednesday. Speaking at the World Energy Congress, the officials noted that 60 percent of the global increase in emissions from 2005 to 2030 would come from India and China. By next year, China will overtake the United States as the leader in carbon emissions, the agency ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/14/asia/climate.php


Source: ecologicalinternet.org