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		<title>sustainable economic decisions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday the New York Times published a report,  China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants, which documented China&#8217;s transition to cleaner forms of energy. Although much of China&#8217;s energy needs are still met by inefficient coal-fired power stations with poor track records in terms of emissions, China has begun to invest heavily in cleaner coal technology with a view to improving efficiency and reducing emissions. The effect of this transition is already being taken into account by climate forecasters. China’s improvements are starting to have an effect on climate models. In its latest annual report last November, the I.E.A. cut its forecast of the annual increase in Chinese emissions of global warming gases, to 3 percent from 3.2 percent, in response to technological gains, particularly in the coal sector, even as the agency raised slightly its forecast for Chinese economic growth. “It’s definitely changing the baseline, and that’s being taken into account,” said Jonathan Sinton, a China specialist at the energy agency Buried innocuously in the middle of this report was the startlingly frank statement of Cao Peixi, president of the China Huaneng group, China&#8217;s largest state-owned electric company: “We shouldn’t look at this project from a purely financial perspective,” he [...]]]></description>
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