An analysis by a non-profit research group drawing on calculations by an Italian analyst looking into the carbon footprint of made-in-China solar panels claims that the influential United Nations body on climate change has been drastically underestimating the carbon intensity of Chinese-made photovoltaic cells.
Environmental Progress, a non-profit co-founded by investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger, in collaboration with The Blind Spot and Italian analyst Enrico Mariutti, recently released a report arguing that Chinese-made solar panels are about three times as dirty, in terms of carbon emissions during their production, as claimed by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), which is the United Nations body for assessing climate change science….