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A new report warns of the environmental impact of Asia's rise. But the relationship between pollution and economic growth is not simple, argues Anna Petherick.

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Figure 1: An idealized EKC (inset) and the CO2 efficiencies of Asian-Pacific subregions over time (main graph).

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  1. Anna Petherick is a freelance journalist based in Devon, UK,

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Petherick, A. Vital statistics. Nature Clim Change 1, 390–391 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1271

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