China emissions could overtake US by November

China may overtake the United States as the world's biggest source of greenhouse gases within months, one of the world's leading energy analysts predicted on Tuesday.
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Fatih Birol, chief economist of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, said the country's economic growth had been so fast in 2006 and 2007 that the historic shift that was previously predicted for 2009 or 2010 could now happen by November.
At current rates, he said, China would be emitting twice as much CO2 as the world's 26 richest countries together within 25 years. "[By then] CO2 emissions which come from China alone will be double the CO2 emissions which will come from all the OECD countries put together – the whole US, plus Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand" said Birol.

China may overtake the United States as the world's biggest source of greenhouse gases within months

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