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Greenhouse gases: Rich countries are outsourcing carbon-dioxide emissions [1]

WHEN a country reports its carbon emissions to the UN, it is the carbon dioxide that goes out of chimneys, exhaust pipes and forest fires of the country's own territory that gets counted. But what about the carbon emitted elsewhere by people making goods that the country imports?

Publication Date: 
28/04/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide [3], Green House Gases [4], Climate Change [5], Global [6]
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