Editorial

With an annual GDP growth rate well above the 7% to 8% forecast by the Government at the start of the decade, and in spite of significant attempts over recent years to conserve energy, China is being hurled faster than was foreseen into all the global problems associated with climate change. It is estimated that by 2007, China will have overtaken the United States in absolute terms as the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide. Unlike other environmental problems related to water, air or ..