China is investing heavily in wind power schemes throughout Inner Mongolia, reports BBC News Tuesday.
In 2007, China overtook the US as the world’s biggest polluter.
The country’s powerhouse economy produced 1,8bn tonnes of carbon in 2007 from burning fossil fuels, according to estimates from according to the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
A recent study from the Institute for Energy Research, a US free-market energy think tank, said if China continues to place economic growth before environmental concerns, then its carbon output could hit 3,5bn tonnes by 2040.
This scenario has spurred the government onwards, with a big expansion of renewable energy.
The country is both the world’s largest consumer and producer of coal, it provides 70 per cent of China’s energy needs and there is little sign of that changing.
