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China’s contribution to climate change

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Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel use in China have grown dramatically in the past few decades, yet it emerges that the country's relative contribution to global climate change has remained surprisingly constant. See Letter p.357

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  1. Dominick V. Spracklen is in the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.,

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Spracklen, D. China’s contribution to climate change. Nature 531, 310–311 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/531310a

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