As Chinese emissions overtake the US can business solve the problem?

James S Murray
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China's emissions may be soaring but Western firms have to recognise that it is their supply chains that have fuelled much of this pollution

The future has arrived, and it's earlier than expected. It has been predicted for years that CO2 emissions from China would overtake those from the US sometime prior to 2010 and possibly even this...

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