When it comes to China, it is harder for a growing economy to reduce their emissions. We can't base the reductions in climate gases on poor countries remaining poor. In the future, however, it is not unlikely that the growing wealth of China might create pollution greater than that of the US.
Still, the US are the biggest polluter, standing for around 25% of the global emissions. China's greatest project in creating energy lately has been through water-plants. Even though the three valley project were a disaster to the local enviroment, It won't pollute the air...
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