Last year China canceled the implementation of energy projects with a total value of 69 billion dollars, in order to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2).

China is the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases. Jang LiJun, Senior Official of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection, said at a conference on renewable energy resources held in the city of Tianjin, that the government in Beijing 2008 abandoned the realization of 156 industrial projects that could have become large environmental polluters.

Chinese authorities emphasize that they will rather increase the energy efficiency and usage of renewable energy resources than accept limited CO2 emission, because it may limit the economic development of the country, said the US agency, recalling that the introduction of CO2-restrictions, forming an integral part of the new global agreement on climate change, will be negotiated at the United Nations Summit in December in Copenhagen.

Developing countries, which are not members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will contribute to the overall increase in the CO2 emission until 2030 with as much as 97%, said Executive Director of the International Energy Agency Nabuo Tanaka at the Asian conference on oil and gas held in Kuala Lumpur.

According to data of the US Department of Energy, China became in 2006 the world’s largest emitter of harmful gases produced by oil and coal combustion, surpassing herewith the USA, Russia, India and Japan.

The third largest world economy, that produces 80% of its electricity with coal, aims to reduce the CO2-emissions until 2010 by 15% as compared to the level from 2005.