The IPCC has over-estimated China's emissions since 2000 by 14%, almost 3 gigatonnes of carbon since 2000, while its energy consumption has been 10% higher than realised, writes Eliza Berlage. The country is far more carbon-efficient than we ever knew.
… for more than a decade China's greenhouse gas emissions have been overestimated by … statistics. As the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, China's recent pledge to peak its …