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While developing countries 'waste' exports to developing countries, many wealthy provinces in China also seek to 'push' CO2 emissions into poorer regions.

A number of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Maryland, the University of California and Cambridge University conducted a study based on the relationship between goods and emissions in these 57 industrial sectors. across 26 provinces and 4 major cities.

Research shows that in 2007, emissions in China amounted to more than 7 billion tons, more than half of which came from burned fossil fuels used to produce goods. The results also show that the most affluent cities in China such as Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and some eastern provinces such as Guangdong, Zhejiang . have pumped more than 75% of emissions. related to consumer products into the atmosphere of the central and western provinces.

In 2009, during the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, China pledged to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 17% per unit of gross domestic product between 2010 and 2015. The plan is realized. Currently, by imposing a 19% reduction in emissions in the wealthy eastern provinces, and 10% in less developed regions. However, policy has led to the trend of business owners start moving factories and production activities to less stringent areas and lower pollution standards.

'We want to reduce CO ₂ emissions, not' push 'to other areas. Development areas need to be responsible, technically supportive to bring to the 'poor' areas a more healthy living environment . ' A researcher from the University of Maryland said.

China is known as a unified entity, but it is also divided in many areas such as geography, economic development, infrastructure and lifestyle. Typically, in regions like Shanghai, Beijing or Tianjin, CO ₂ emissions are four times higher in provinces like Guangxi, Yunnan or Guizhou.