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...when President Barack Obama took office, given the importance he placed on climate change during his campaign. But coming out of the U.N.'s high-level meeting on climate change on Sept. 22, it is China that has managed to seize the moral high ground - fairly or not. President Hu Jintao told the U.N. that by 2020 China would increase the share of renewable and nuclear power in its energy supply to 15%, plant 40 million hectares of forest, increase investment in a greener economy and reduce its carbon intensity - the amount of economic value it gets per unit...
...Indeed, leadership on climate change may be shifting to the East. Hu emphasized that China's economic policies would continue to promote the country's rapid development, and it isn't clear just how ambitious China's emissions cuts will be. As Todd Stern, the U.S.'s top climate diplomat, told reporters on Tuesday: "It all depends on what the numbers will be." But from the outside, it looks like China is forging ahead while the U.S. remains mired in domestic politics. "The question is whether [China] will prompt Obama and the Senate into action before Copenhagen," says Annie Petsonk...
...Tuesday, two of the world’s most important men—U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao—shared the spotlight at the UN Summit on Climate Change to speak about taking steps to combat climate change. The headliners of a group of over 100 leaders, both presidents spoke of the importance of the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s December meeting in Copenhagen. While the message of both men was a step in the right direction, we call on the leaders to translate promises into concrete action...
...Representing the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, Hu took a fateful step in announcing China would cut carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. Several of the measures that Hu unveiled will have a dramatic impact, such as making 15 percent of China’s fuel come from non-fossil sources by that target date, while planting enough trees to cover what the Los Angeles Times calculated to be the entire size of Norway...
...recognize that developed nations will have to play a larger role in any plan, aiding countries with greater need through shared green technology and general support. We call on Obama and Hu to take leading roles in making such plans a reality. Speeches and declarations of intent are important, but now must come the transition to action...