China’s Coal Dependency Stronger than Fight vs. Global Warming

NY ALESUND, Norway - China will have trouble cutting its dependence on coal despite growing pressures to fight global warming, a leading Chinese official told an international panel of experts on Wednesday on an Arctic island.

Amid growing concern over the climate change impact, China will overtake the United States by 2008 as the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases because of booming economic growth and a heavy reliance on high-polluting coal-fired power plants.

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