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[–] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So how does it look if we break down where the many products China produces for others are actually sold?

Many countries at the top of that list outsourced a lot of their manufacturing and production to China, meaning they no longer create the industrial pollution locally to make the products actually consume. So their pollution is artificially lowered by that outsourcing while China's is inflated.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Depending on the production line it's kinda both. Some companies apply strict audits and demand clean production, others don't give a shit, and when they don't give a shit it's both down to that company and to the local cheap manufacturer that they choose to pollute. It's not like most companies go to China and ask them to pollute, they just want it cheap. In that case the responsibility is shared IMHO because both sides can fix it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Imported or embedded emissions are taken into account in the carbon footprint datas (at least in the EU).

    China construction sector accounts for almost half of the CO2 emissions of the construction sector worldwide. It's entirely local, and only concerns 1/8th of the world population (the Chinese population).

    Also, manufacturing is low carbon compared to transportation or construction.

    China just doesn't give a fuck, same as most western countries. They just build solar panels to reduce their dependency to Russia's petrol.

    Edit : phrasing and added a link. My claims also come from other datasets but finding those on the phone was too long.

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