即使中国实现其自身节能的目标，其排放在未来五年中还是将会增长大约23亿吨。 这一数字要远远大于京都议定书规定包括美国在内的37个“附件一”发达国家的17亿吨的减排量。
Even if China met its own targets for energy conservation, its emissions would increase by about 2.3 billion metric tons over the next five years – far larger than the 1.7 billion tons in cutbacks imposed by the Kyoto Protocol on the 37 developed “Annex 1” countries, including the US.