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The article offers the author's insights on the role of assessing the contribution of a community to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in climate change mitigation. The authors say that international organizations have developed protocol for measuring community-scale emissions. They state that communities consume and import materials and goods that are made elsewhere. They cite the significance of measuring emissions for the relevance and usability of GHG inventory. They add that local governments have focused on emissions that are related to in-boundary energy use.

The authors opine on China's role in controlling greenhouse gas emissions to address global climate change. Though the authors acknowledge that China appears to be willing to impose a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions, they believe that the country owes more to the effort considering its national contribution of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Instead of achieving a reduction in its energy intensity, China is said to have had an increase in same between 2005 and 2009.