Like many in the Western world, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has noticed that China is on track to become the world’s largest carbon emitter per person by 2017 and that its carbon emissions may be increasing at a rate faster than researchers anticipated, despite the fact that the country anticipates being able to meet its pledge to cut total carbon emissions by 5 percent by 2020.But beyond just watching and hoping that China will boost its renewable energy programs at a fast enough rate to make a dent in that carbon footprint, MIT is launching a whole new, five-year-long program designed to “analyze the impact of existing and proposed energy and climate policies in China on technology, energy use, the environment and economic welfare by applying — and, where necessary, developing — both quantitative and qualitative analysis tools.”
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