China says climate policy must make room for growth
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China went on the global warming  offensive on Monday, unveiling a climate change action plan  while stressing it will not sacrifice economic ambitions to  international demands to cut greenhouse gas pollution.
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By Sun Xiaohua  Experts have urged the government to make climate change an integral part of its development planning in order to address the problem global warming.
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China will release its first national plan to tackle climate change next week, seeking to rebut international criticism that it is not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, officials said on Thursday.
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Climate change, not war or terrorism,  will be the century&#39;s biggest security challenge with China  unlikely to be able to feed its vast and growing population as  a result, Australia&#39;s top policeman has warned.
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The central bank says China's economy should grow by 10.5 percent this year, state media reported Sunday, even stronger than the 10 percent predicted last week by the National Bureau of Statistics.
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China vows to 'blaze a new path to industrialisation' today as it unveils first national plan on climate change.
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But few practical steps are being taken to move China's burgeoning economy away its heavy dependence on fossil fuels.
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Emerging economies such as China are justified in holding back on fighting greenhouse gas emissions until richer polluters like the United States do more to solve the problem, former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday.
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China's top climate official said on Tuesday that Beijing is determined to curb the use of fossil fuels behind global warming, but deflected questions of whether the big emitter will accept caps on greenhouse gases.
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"The Chinese government will take concrete measures in energy saving and pollution control and try to meet the targets set in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan"  China will take its responsibilities seriously and contribute to the global cause of environmental protection, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday. via People's Daily Online
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BEIJING  - China's finance minister says economic growth of nine per cent this year would be acceptable, state television reported this week in the first acknowledgment by a senior official that growth might exceed the government's target of seven per cent.
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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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"China is very vulnerable to climate change"  China on Monday rejected international pressure to adopt mandatory caps on greenhouse gas production as it unveiled its first national program to help combat global warming. via Journal-Gazette
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China's annual economic growth surged to an 11-Â½ year high of 11.9 percent in the second quarter, cementing expectations for tighter policy to keep the world's fastest-growing major economy from overheating.
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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.
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China said cooling the world&#39;s fastest- growing major economy and maintaining a stable currency will be government priorities next year.
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Environment Secretary David Miliband says a "new model" of economic growth is needed to address climate change.