Fossil-Fuel CO₂ Emissions from Centrally Planned Asia

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Centrally Planned Asia (CPA) includes Vietnam, North Korea (officially Democratic People's Republic of Korea), and Mongolia, but regional statistics are dominated by the People's Republic of China. China currently hosts 92.2% of the region's population and contributes 96.8% of the regional total for fossil-fuel CO₂ emissions. In 1950, China produced 96.9% of the region's fossil-fuel CO₂ emissions from fossil-fuel burning. Growth in CO₂ emissions was virtually continuous until 1996 as the CPA contribution rose from 1.4% of the world total in 1950 to 15.8% in 1996. Declines in fossil-fuel emissions for 1997 and 1998 are attributed largely to reported reductions in Chinese coal production and more efficient consumption of coal. Since 1998, thanks to China's economic growth CPA emissions have virtually doubled (91%) to the present level of 1.72 billion metric tons of carbon and making CPA the largest fossil-fuel emitting region of the world.