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Can our planet support the rise of China and India?

Environmentalists are warning about the impact of the economic booms underway in the world's most populous nations

DPA , WASHINGTON

"Both nations are signatories of the Kyoto Protocol, but as developing nations they are exempted from cutting their emissions. However, China has already taken voluntary measures which have had a very positive impact," Verholme said.

Referring to last year's gathering on global warming in Canada, Verholme said: "What we saw in Montreal now was that while China came forward with measures it has taken to improve environmental sustainability, the US did not."

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