China’s Global Warming Pollution Estimates Cut in Harvard Study
A Chinese man and his daughter wear masks to protect against pollution in Beijing, China.
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China’s fossil-fuel emissions are lower than than previously estimated, according to research led by academics at Harvard University.
Chinese emissions in 2013 were probably about 14 percent lower than researchers had thought, according to the team led by Zhu Liu at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government said Wednesday in a paper in the journal Nature.