China has become the world’s largest CO2 emitter in the world, according to an environmental assessment.
A statement released by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency stated, “China’s 2006 CO2 emissions surpassed those of the USA by 8%.”
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency supports national and international policy makers by analysing the environmental impact of policies and trends in society.
The increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels is mainly due to an increase in global coal consumption which China contributed more than two-thirds.
Since overtaking the US in emissions, China has now begun building 2 power stations each week.
In a recent visit to China, UK Foreign Office official, John Ashton, did not hold the country responsible for it increased emissions but rather acknowledged the responsibility of developed nations to set an example.
Mr. Ashton told the BBC, “We need to help them towards a low-carbon future. Most of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have been put there by developed countries without the constraint of having to worry about the climate. That means we should bear the leading edge of responsibility.”
This announcement came a day after scientists from leading scientific institutions in the United States warned of Earths ‘imminent peril’ due to recent greenhouse gas emissions.
The scientific paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, revealed “only intense efforts to curb man-made emissions of carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases can keep the climate within or near the range it has been in past one million years.”
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