C[O.sub.2] down in PRC. (The Beat).Despite a 36% growth in its gross domestic product, China has pulled off a 17% reduction in C[O.sub.2] emissions since the mid-1990s, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientific research centers run by the Univ. of California, located in Berkeley, Calif., and Livermore, Calif., respectively. in California. C[O.sub.2] is one of the greenhouse gases greenhouse gas n. Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. greenhouse gas believed to cause global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. . The researchers cite the end of coal subsidies, energy conservation programs, and initiatives to reduce coal use as main factors in this achievement. Zhou Dadi, director of the Energy Research Institute of the Chinese central government, says, however, that there are still great improvements to be made in fuel energy efficiency. |
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