As per a research by the London School of Economics (LSE), China will be able to peak gas emissions five years earlier than it initially thought.

The researchers have praised the nation’s adoption of a cleaner economic growth model for being able to achieve the targets earlier than promised. According to the analysis, the targets can be achieved by 2025.

The report’s author Lord Nicholas Stern and researcher Fergus Green from the Grantham Research Institute at LSE were of the view that the news is highly positive one for the world. The finding improves the chances of achieving the target of two degrees Celsius, which is a goal being agreed upon by rest of the nations in order to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

The news is significant as China is world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter. In 2013, its greenhouse gas emissions were at 10. 3 billion tonnes, the number is almost double the rate of America, which is the world’s second largest emitter.

There are a number of factors that have brought a significant rise in Chinese emissions, including rapid economic growth, heavy industry development, and enormous coal consumption and suffocating air pollution in its cities.

But now, China has adopted renewable energy and opted things like energy efficiency, industry regulation and the development of emissions trading. The expected peak level of emissions could be 12.5 to 14 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.

“This could hold open the possibility that global greenhouse gas emissions could be brought onto a pathway consistent with the international goal of limiting global warming to no more than two degrees”, said the researchers.