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...works for both Washington and China have met with repeated failures. The problem is clear: before it commits to reductions, the U.S. wants China to agree to limits - but the Chinese, who said this week they were ready to reduce the rate of growth of emissions by a "notable margin," rightly point out that Kyoto spares China and all developing nations from binding emissions-cuts targets unless they are compensated...
...funds since joining the union in 1973. Ireland represents less than 1% of the Union's half-billion total population, but it is the only member state to have asked its electorate to vote on the treaty. In June of last year, voters had rejected the document by a margin...
...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 of power - by a "notable margin." Many of those domestic goals had already been announced, but the tone of Hu's speech made an impact on his audience. "I think China has provided impressive leadership," said Al Gore after Hu's talk. (See pictures of Beijing's attempt to clean...
...amount of CO2 it emits for every unit of GDP. This, too, is plausible, since enhanced energy efficiency tends to reduce carbon emissions at the same time. But the world was looking for targets - hard numbers - and all Hu would say was that China would cut, by a "notable margin," its emissions per unit of output by the year 2020. Out of such caution - standard in a country that does not want to do anything to hamstring its economic growth - it's unlikely that historic agreements will spring. (Has China become the climate-change good...
...climate change. The country spent an estimated $221 billion in economic stimulus on green initiatives, more than any other nation. At the U.N., in addition to promising to raise its renewable energy share to 15% by 2020, Hu pledged that China would cut its carbon emissions by a "notable margin" by 2020. "Out of a sense of responsibility to its own people and people across the world, China has taken and will continue to take determined and practical steps to tackle this challenge," he said...