China falls short on energy-saving goals
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China is falling short of its goals in a campaign to boost energy efficiency in its fuel-guzzling economy &#151; the world's No. 2 oil consumer &#151; but is starting to make progress, the government said Thursday.
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China is considering halting efforts to make oil from coal due to concerns about the expense and energy demands, a state news agency on Sunday quoted an official as saying.
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China said on Tuesday it will not be tied to targets on cutting carbon emissions as Europe and Asia failed to agree at a 40-nation meeting on how to fight global warming.
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China has invested billions in oil facilities and pipelines, but not in much else, say Sudanese locals.
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Chinese officials put the country's unseasonably warm weather down to global warming.
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It may be the factory to the world, but China's consumers aren't exactly splashing out. And credit cards are not widely accepted
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China's plan to cut coal use has brought electricity to nomads and hopes for cleaner air by 2020.
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The nationâs leading effort to build a coal-fired electric plant that will capture and store its carbon emissions will take a shaky step forward on Tuesday.
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While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for its energy.
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China has less scope than before to raise interest rates and banks' required reserves, making it very tough for policy makers to steer the economy to a soft landing, Vice Finance Minister Li Yong said on Sunday.
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China promised on Monday to integrate climate change policy into its industrial and energy sectors, but said it would not cave in to international pressure over global warming by sacrificing economic growth.
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Beijing - China planned to boost the development of its nuclear power industry to help meet its growing need for electricity as it made a strategic shift in focus away from coal, an official said yesterday.
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China says its eastern provinces and Shanghai face more power shortages this winter and spring.
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China is set to become to the world's largest consumer of energy by 2010, a report claims.
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BEIJING, Feb. 27 -- The Communist Party cautioned China's increasingly impatient reformers and intellectuals Tuesday that political liberalization and democracy are still a long way off despite the rapid pace of economic change during the past two decades.
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China's state-run media has played down fresh warnings on climate change issued by a UN scientific panel, while Australia's Prime Minister John Howard said the report bolstered the case for using nuclear energy as an alternative fuel source.
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China promised Monday to better control emissions of greenhouse gases, unveiling a new national program to combat global warming, but rejected mandatory caps on emissions as unfair to countries still trying to catch up with the developed West.