[Praxeologue]

CO2 emission doesn't matter, except as a wealth transfer pretext. China certainly wants no part of that.

China needs to reduce the emissions of other truly harmful chemicals from coal combustion. That would entail scrubbers and better quality, more expensive coal.

A carbon trading scheme looks like nothing more than disingenuous PR for the greenies of the developed world.

[Praxeologue]

... data secrecy and a tendency to hand out too many permits made them inefficient in cutting emissions.

That's how they'll get around their own rules.

[Paul R.]

Agreed. Our EPA’s own data appears to indicate that except for some local “hot spots”, the fish in most bodies of water in the US have more mercury in them from China, than from the US. How bad the mercury problem in fish in China is (where fish is often a diet staple), must be sobering to SOMEBODY in China...