China´s Falling Emissions Raise Climate Hopes
(WorldNews Environment)

Say it softly, but a look at China´s falling emissions of carbon dioxide may suggest that there could be some good news on the climate change front. Over recent years China has supplanted the US as the world´s biggest emitter of climate-changing greenhouse gases, mainly because of the country´s booming economy and its reliance for energy on coal, the most polluting of fossil fuels. But new data show that China´s emissions fell substantially in the years from 2013 to 2016. The big question now - both for China and for the...