On the eve of the G-8 summit, British media believed that both Europe and the United States would enlist China's support on the issue of greenhouse gas emissions at the G-8 meeting. China is now the world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the United States, accounting for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and that figure is still rising. China is also classified as a developing country in the UN-sponsored Kyoto Protocol
it is not bound by the treaty's requirements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
China's greenhouse gas emissions rank second in the world and are increasing year by year