How China became the world’s biggest climate sinner – economy

The leaves shine so yellow and so beguiling as in hardly any other place in Beijing. People keep stopping, pausing, pulling out their cell phones and taking a selfie in front of the radiant autumnal ginko trees. In the photos you can see the beautiful, but also the ugly: Almost 30 stories high, a monster made of concrete and glass stretches behind the trees. The building is just as secure as the Chinese Foreign Ministry on the other side of the street, barriers at the driveways and men in uniforms who refuse anyone who wants to enter the headquarters of the oil and petrochemical company Sinopec, probably the dirtiest company in the world.