Big numbers.

[T]he International Iron and Steel Institute announced that the Chinese steel industry is responsible for approximately 51% of all carbon emissions released by steelmakers worldwide. ...

But what’s hard - and interesting - is determining why China’s share of steelmaking carbon emissions (51%) is so much larger than its share of steel-making capacity (35%). The obvious answer is that China doesn’t enforce laws requiring pollution abatement equipment on its smokestack industries. I’ve probably visited a dozen Chinese steel mills over the last few years, and every one has fallen below the environmental standards set and followed at similar facilities in the developed world. In most cases, there is little to no pollution equipment at all. In other cases, the pollution abatement equipment is installed - and unused. This is nothing new: Chinese officials have commented publicly on the tendency of Chinese industrial facilities to run pollution equipment only on the occasion of an official visits.

Trackbacks (0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0)

Write comment

Name

Title

Comment

Add Comment