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Ending UN climate talks in Durban, negotiators agreed a package of measures that would eventually force all the world’s polluters – including China – to take legally binding action to slow the pace of global warming, Reuters said. The delegates agreed to: a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol; the design of a Green Climate...
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Persistent smog blanketed Beijing and parts of China’s north-east at the start of the week, forcing cancellation of hundreds of flights and closure of motorways and focusing concern and public anger on high air-pollution levels, MSNBC reported. While China’s environmental monitoring centre said the air was slightly polluted, the US embassy –...
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China’s leading climate representative at the UN talks in Durban, Su Wei, said that while the country is open to negotiations, EU conditions for signing up to a second Kyoto Protocol commitment period are “not fair” for developing countries, China Daily reported. The EU has said it will only extend emissions-reduction targets beyond 2012...
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In the lead up to UN climate talks in Durban, the Chinese government issued its most comprehensive document to date on the country’s negotiating position, Xinhua said. The white paper set out three “expectations” for next week’s summit, covering the Kyoto Protocol, rich world emissions cuts and mechanisms for finance and technology transfer...
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Xinhua reported a “huge gap” between China’s emissions reduction and energy-saving results for the first half of this year and targeted cuts, as shown by Ministry of Environmental Protection statistics. Although chemical oxygen demand and sulphur dioxide output fell, emissions of nitrogen oxides rose by more than 6% in the six-month period,...
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China led the way in 2010’s record worldwide increase in carbon emissions, Agence France-Presse reported, citing US energy department data. The country’s carbon output from burning fossil fuels rose by 212 million tonnes over 2009 figures, followed by the United States with 59 million tonnes more and India with an additional 48 million tonnes. The...
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To break the deadlock in UN climate talks, developing countries need to contribute concrete plans to reduce carbon emissions, China’s top climate-change official told The Guardian. Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the best chance of progress at upcoming talks in Durban, South Africa, was for developed...
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Sharp increases in temperature, driven by global warming, are melting China’s Himalayan glaciers, Agence France-Presse reported, citing a study led by Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers. Drastic retreats were observed in the glacial regions, along with large losses of mass and an increase in the area of glacial lakes, according to the study, published...
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Present CO2 emissions per capita in China are now equal to those of Italy but in 2010, they were higher than France and Spain, according to a new report by the EU's Joint Research Centre and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.The report predicts that by 2017 China will become the highest per capita emitter. The report, Long-term Trend in Global...
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China’s rail- and road-building boom is running short of money, the Associated Press said, citing reports that some projects have been suspended as workers and suppliers go unpaid. Many of the six million migrant workers employed in China’s massive railway build-up allegedly have not been paid for months, with some 10,000 kilometres of projects...
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