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China Failing to Meet Own Emissions Goals
By Alan Tonelson
Friday, December 25, 2009
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TRENDS
Share of latest Chinese Five Year Plan* targets met as of plan midpoint (2008):
Increase in economic growth per capita: 165%
Cuts in CO2 emissions: 22%
*2006-1010
Source: “The Next China,” by Stephen S. Roach, MorganStanley, December 8, 2009, p. 3
Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business & Industry Educational Foundation and the author of The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards (Westview Press).
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