From AP:
China will spend more to research global warming but lacks the money and technology to significantly reduce the greenhouse-gas emissions that are worsening the problem, a government official said yesterday.
China “lags behind Europe and the United States” in the technology needed to clean its coal, which accounts for 69 percent of its energy output, said Qin Dahe, chief of the China Meteorological Administration.
The lack of technology to clean coal so it can burn without producing much pollution is a serious problem because China is already the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal, and is expected to surpass the United States as the world’s largest greenhouse-gas emitter in the next decade. [Full Text]
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