China could overtake US as biggest emissions culprit by November

China may overtake the United States as the world’s biggest source of greenhouse gases within months, one of the world’s leading energy analysts predicted yesterday.

Dr Fatih Birol, chief economist of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, said the country’s economic growth had been so fast in 2006 and 2007 that the historic global shift of climate-changing emissions from west to east which was previously predicted for 2009 or 2010 could now happen by November.

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