China's Total Pollution Output Now Second Only To America's

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The report on China, released over the weekend at the 10th UN meeting on climate change, showed that emissions have increased in China from 2.67 billion tonnes in 1994 to 4.08 billion tonnes in 2002, according to information from China and the International Energy Agency in Paris.

The 2002 China figures represented 3.2 tonnes per person. The figure for the US is 19.4 tonnes per person and for Germany, 10.2 tonnes. The report was the first official report submitted by China under the requirements of the Kyoto Convention on global warming.

Under the convention, developing countries are not obligated to reduce greenhouse gasses. Brazil also presented its first report, which showed the destruction of rain forests is the major culprit in its increased emissions of dangerous gasses.

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The report said that the largest sources of Chinese emissions was the burning of fossil fuels, above all coal, the mining industry and the production of energy. Experts said it was absolutely urgent for China to give priority to environmentally friendly technology in the billions of dollars of investments flowing into the country."

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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/12/14/2003215052

American #1 still!....oh wait....not something to be proud of, huh?