China has burned 17% more coal in recent years than the country had previously acknowledged leading to significantly higher carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report on new government figures. The revelation, reported in the New York Times, comes just weeks before the start of an international conference on climate change in Paris that world leaders hope will yield an international agreement to stem carbon dioxide emissions.

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