Two different news regarding China hit the twitterverse on the same day last week. First, the bad one : The People’s Republic’s greenhouse gases emissions may have been underestimated by as much as 20 percent.
This huge difference – as much as the annual emissions of Japan, or 1.4 Gt of CO2 – can be explained by the fact that there are ” inconsistencies of coal consumption between national and provincial statistics “
All this has a lot of repercussions for everyone as it makes climate change mitigation even harder than it was for both scientists and internatinonal negotiation.