China says one-child policy helps protect climate
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China says its one-child policy has helped the fight against global warming by avoiding 300 million births, the equivalent of the population of the United States.
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HAMBURG, Germany  - EU foreign ministers urged Asian countries on Tuesday to join the fight against climate change after hearing China argue that protecting the environment had to be balanced by the right to develop.
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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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Comment is free: Isabel Hilton: China will only act on climate change if we lead by example.
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Germany urges China to address climate change, but China says it should still be allowed to grow economically.
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China is to outlaw the selective  abortion of female fetuses to correct an imbalance in the ratio  of boys to girls that has grown since a one-child policy was  introduced more than 20 years ago.
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China needs to look back at environment before leap: official    BEIJING, Sept.
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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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China, where strict family planning  rules allow couples normally to have just one child, has broken  up a baby-trafficking ring, arrested 40 people and rescued 44  infants, state media reported on Thursday.
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China said Tuesday it was working hard to increase its use of renewable energy, but needs to be given some leeway in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gases.
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Growing numbers of Chinese children are  being born with deformities due to pollution, later pregnancies  and unhealthy lifestyles, state media said on Thursday quoting  a medical expert.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged China on Monday to do more to halt climate change, prompting the response that the developed West has been polluting the skies for much longer than the newly developing Chinese.
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Japan urged China to use its growing influence to make an impact on key global issues such as climate change during summit talks Friday that reflected the countries' warmer ties.
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Despite some changes, China's one-child family planning program remains a source of coercion, forced abortions, infanticide and perilously imbalanced boy-girl ratios, State Department officials said Tuesday.
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China will expand a pilot program that aims to stop the transmission of AIDS from mother to child, curbing the rapid increase of new born infants infected with HIV.
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China&#39;s first plan for climate change  will seek to fortify the country against damage from global  warming but also against international pressure to cut  greenhouse gas pollution that Beijing calls the cost of growth.
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China's plan to cut coal use has brought electricity to nomads and hopes for cleaner air by 2020.