IF AMERICA at last gets a president who is committed to cutting carbon emissions, then two big Asian countries, China and India, will be seen by many as the source of the world's biggest climate-change problems. Russia's economy is more profligate with energy, but China is widely believed to be the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, and India is rapidly moving up. Gradually China, in particular, is making a show of action to tackle the problem, not least by admitting the scale of emissions it produces and by seeking ways to consume energy more efficiently. India's reaction, so far, has been more lacklustre. See full article.

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