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LONDON (Reuters) – Very efficient coal-fired power plants will be able to sell carbon offsets under the Kyoto Protocol, in an expansion of project eligibility under the carbon trading scheme, U.N. official Jose Miguez said.

“It was approved,” he told Reuters on Friday.

China is set to overtake the United States this year as the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, blamed for global warming, largely because of its rapidly rising coal consumption.

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