China overtakes U.S. as top CO2 emitter: Dutch agency
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China has overtaken the United States  as the top emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas,  because of surging energy use amid an economic boom, a Dutch  government-funded agency said on Wednesday.
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Oil climbed above $61 to its highest this year on Friday after top fuel consumer the United States reported an unexpected drop in gasoline stocks and Iran said it would show 'no weakness' over its nuclear program.
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FRANKFURT (Der Spiegel) - China's economy is continuing to expand at a blistering rate - with 11.5 percent growth in the third quarter of 2007. It is now poised to overtake Germany as the world's third largest economy within weeks and will soon also take Germany's crown as the world's biggest exporter. China's economy is continuing to surge ahead in double-digit growth figures and is due to overtake Germany as the third largest in the world within the next few weeks.  The country announced 11.5 percent growth for the third quarter of 2007, down on the 11.9 percent of the second quarter thanks to government efforts to cool the boom.
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A group of Japanese researchers has found that carbon dioxide levels over the Antarctica rose by over 2.6 percent from six years ago - the first such detection of an increase in a "greenhouse" gas above the southern continent, group members said Tuesday.    Many scientists fear carbon dioxide, produced by burning fossil fuels and other industrial processes, may be causing global warming by trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere...
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Crude oil prices surged to a new high Monday on supply concerns ahead of the winter, a possible petroleum-industry strike in Norway and data showing that China&#39;s big demand for oil is likely to increase.
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By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more greenhouse gases than it did in 2000, according to a government report. By the Associated Press.
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China's online population has soared to 210 million people and could surpass the United States this year to become the world's biggest, the Chinese government said Friday.
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China's annual economic growth surged to an 11-Â½ year high of 11.9 percent in the second quarter, cementing expectations for tighter policy to keep the world's fastest-growing major economy from overheating.
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"The risk of the global economy taking a downward turn is increasing"  The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it.Climate change returned to the fore at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, where Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda proposed a 2020 deadline for countries to boost their energy efficiency by 30 percent. He added that Japan would try to spread its high-quality environmental technology around the world. Read more
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German scientists have activated CO2 by using graphitic carbon nitride as a catalyst, moving science closer to artificial photosynthesis.  The achievement was reported by a team led by Markus Antonietti at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany.
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China said Tuesday it was working hard to increase its use of renewable energy, but needs to be given some leeway in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gases.
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Australia's conservative, anti-Kyoto prime minister has pushed climate change to the top of the agenda for this week's APEC forum. But can the U.S. and China be brought onboard this time?
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China has overtaken the United States as the world's top producer of carbon dioxide emissions &#151; the biggest man-made contributor to global warming &#151; based on the latest widely accepted energy consumption data, a Dutch research group says.
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HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--China Petroleum &amp; Chemical Corp. (SNP), China&#39;s second-largest oil producer, said its first-half net profit rose 51%, on increased domestic demand and higher oil prices.
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit for a proposed coal-fired electricity generating plant, saying that the greenhouse gas threatens public health...
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One in four Americans think China will beat the United States in the next decade as the world leader in innovation, according to a survey released on Sunday by Zogby International.
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China has surpassed Japan to become the world's No.2 spender on research and development, behind the US.