Climate Change—Export Emissions (Qìhòu biànhuà—chūkǒu páifàng 气候变化— 出口排放)|Qìhòu biànhuà—chūkǒu páifàng 气候变化— 出口排放 (Climate Change—Export Emissions)

Christopher WEBER

Exhaust from a factory near a beach in China. If China doesn’t adopt advanced energy technologies and policies to cut energy-demand growth, the country’s energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions could grow more than fourfold in the next twenty years. PHOTO BY JOAN LEBOLD COHEN.

China currently emits more CO₂ into the world’s atmosphere than any other country (but not more per capita). It faces international pressure to control these