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November 05, 2015

China raises coal use figure by hundreds of millions of tonnes
Beijing (AFP) Nov 4, 2015
China has been under-reporting its coal consumption for years, experts said Wednesday after official statistics were revised upwards by hundreds of millions of tonnes a year. Pollution is a growing concern in the world's second-largest economy, whose cities are regularly blanketed by choking smog - much of it the result of burning coal, which provides most of China's primary energy. The updated figures suggest that Chinese emissions of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide - already the world's larges ... read more

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