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 emits a large amount of greenhouse gas, but it is not bound by the treaties in the Kyoto Protocol