Handful of Cities Driving Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Study

Handful of Cities Driving Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Study
A woman wearing a mask walks past buildings on a polluted day in Handan, Hebei province, China, on Jan. 12, 2019. Stringer/Reuters
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Just 25 big cities—almost all of them in China—accounted for more than half of the climate-warming gases pumped out by a sample of 167 urban hubs around the world, an analysis of emissions trends showed on Monday.

In per capita terms, however, emissions from cities in the richest parts of the world are still generally higher than those from urban centers in developing countries, researchers found in the study published in the open access journal Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.