The World's Biggest Polluter Is Cleaning Up Its Act
It's the same situation with the most important destination for the world's LNG carriers, coal ships and oil tankers over the past few decades: China. The biggest consumer of carbon, and the source of a third of annual greenhouse emissions, is finally turning a corner to a cleaner future. China's size is so overwhelming that when its fossil fuel consumption peaks, as it's doing now, it will shift the direction of the whole planet.
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