New research has shown that about half of China's increasing emissions are due to the production and exporting of products for Western nations. What this effectively means (and has been known for a while, although not proven) is that the US, Europe etc. have exported (outsourced) many of their manufacturing emissions to China.

This is particularly bad for the US since it hasn't reduced emissions significantly even with the manufacturing moved to China, it is also bad news for the UK since it really means that manufacturing emissions per capita have not come down, they have just been moved to a new location.

This makes a mockery of the way the UK government calculates manufacturing emissions. As a result our carbon foot prints per capita are greater than officially reported.

The Chemical Engineer Today
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