Western outsourcing pushes up Asian CO2

It said that by shifting manufacturing production to the third world by “outsourcing”, the west had transferred the environmental effects there also.

“All we’ve done is export a great slice of the west’s carbon footprint to China, and today we see the result,” said its UK director, John Sauven.

“The West moved its manufacturing base to China knowing it was vastly more polluting than Japan, Europe or the US. No environmental conditions were attached to this move, in fact the only thing manufacturers were interested in was the price of labour.

“This trend kept the price of our products down but at the cost of soaring greenhouse gas emissions. Long term this policy has been a climate disaster.”

Telegraph