当时，国际原子能机构和其他研究机构的新数据表明中国已经超越美国成为温室气体的最大排放国家。 而且更为不详的是，中国的排放增长远远超过所有富有国家降低排放的能力。
The focus on China intensified late last year, when new data from the International Energy Agency and other research organizations revealed that China had overtaken the US as the largest source of greenhouse gases – and, more ominously, that its emissions are growing at a rate that exceeds all wealthy nations’ capacity to decrease theirs.