Parts of China Now Have Per Capita Emissions To Rival the West: Nicholas Stern

China is the world's leading CO2 polluter but it often relies on per capita emissions data to show that its footprint -- and thus its responsibility to manage climate change -- is much lighter than that of developed countries. But on Friday Nicholas Stern, the British climate change expert said that carbon emissions per person in parts of China are already higher than in some developed countries. "There are many parts of China where emissions intensity and emissions per capita are looking much like some of the richer countries in Europe," he told stude...Read the full story on TreeHugger