Looking ahead, most of the power to enact meaningful change will lie more and more in the modernizing economies of Asia: excluding high-income and low- or no-population growth Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, the continent is now producing half of all emissions. And while the unfolding transformation of sub-Saharan Africa has been much slower, its combined population of about 1.1 billion will nearly double during the next 30 years, it will contain almost 50 percent more people than China (the country that all low-income economies wish to emulate), and a critical assessment of the continent’s
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