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Sweetening the dragon's breath

China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is developing seven experimental carbon-trading schemes. Anna Petherick looks for clues as to how that's going.

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Figure 1: China's projected carbon emissions to 2015 under six different policy scenarios.
Figure 2: China's carbon-intensity ambitions.

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Sweetening the dragon's breath. Nature Clim Change 2, 309–311 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1503

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