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China's hydrofluorocarbon challenge

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China should take more active participation in a prospective agreement on the global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons.

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Figure 1: Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions of HFC production and consumption in China (2005–2009).
Figure 2: China's HFC reduction steps under the 2013 North American HFC amendment proposal.

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This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO.71273153). We thank J. Lin for excellent research assistance.

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  1. Junjie Zhang is at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive #0519, La Jolla, California 92093-0519, USA,

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  2. Can Wang is at the School of Environment and Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China,

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