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What can the G-7 learn from China’s transition to climate-smart growth?

What can the G-7 learn from China’s transition to climate-smart growth?

Ed Araral, Brookings, 16 June 2021

As the leaders of the G-7 gathered for their summit in the U.K., the elephant was not in the room: China and its transition to a climate-smart growth. Over the last decade, China’s CO2 emissions rose by 25 percent to 14.1 billion tons and on a per capita basis increased to 10.1 billion tons a year, just below the OECD average.

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