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China, the worlds biggest polluter, may see its carbon-dioxide emissions peak around 2030 as the country taps cleaner sources of energy, a researcher at a think tank run by the National Development and Reform Commission said.
Emissions may reach almost 9 billion metric tons in 2030, from about 7 billion tons currently, Jiang Kejun, director of energy and market analysis at the NDRCs Energy Research Institute, said in an interview in Beijing today.
China has pledged to reduce its carbon-dioxide output per unit of gross domestic product by 40 to 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. The country overtook the U.S. as the worlds biggest energy user last year and relies on coal as fuel for 80 percent of its power plants, according to the International Energy Agency.
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on Aug 10th, 2010
@ 4:36 pm:
[...] academics have said that stabilizing their emissions by 2020 could and should be done. Others predict optimistically that 2030 is the earliest date, and even that is pushing it. Thus, the [...]