China is set on curbing fossil fuels: climate chief
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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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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24--U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said Monday that a 15-year international effort to stem global warming has failed to halt the buildup of greenhouse emissions and called for governments to undertake "unprecedented action" to reverse the trend.
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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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The Governmentâs chief scientist will today highlight the need for action in combating global warning amid reports the main greenhouse gas is rising sharply.
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An international group of corporate leaders calls for global targets on reducing greenhouse emissions.
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China's President Hu Jintao gave qualified support on Thursday to Australia's initiative on climate change, as a rift opened at APEC's meetings over the "Sydney Declaration" and targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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The world&#39;s two biggest polluters, the US and China, will have an unprecedented chance to thrash out action on climate change at an upcoming summit in Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
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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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The world faces a global warming disaster if the United States and China do not take decisive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a leading economist said at the U.N. Friday.
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A senior Chinese official tells the BBC the country's environmental problems have reached crisis levels.
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Negotiations on a new treaty to fight global warming will fail if rich nations are not treated as "culprits" and developing countries as "victims," China's top climate envoy said.
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A moratorium on coal-fired power plants is key to cutting carbon dioxide emissions that promote global warming, NASA's top climatologist said Monday.
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China is the world's second-largest source of greenhouse gases but when the Kyoto Protocol on climate change comes into force next week it will be under no obligation to cut emissions.
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BUENOS AIRES -- The world's chief climate scientist yesterday disputed the US government's contention that cutbacks in carbon dioxide emissions are not yet warranted to slow the pace of global warming.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is  expected to push for tougher global action against climate  change and ending human rights abuses in Darfur in meetings  with top Chinese officials on Monday.
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China'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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By Gail Kinsey Hill, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Dec. 14--Portland General Electric chief executive Peggy Fowler on  Wednesday called for federal limits on carbon dioxide emissions, suggesting  broadening industry support for restrictions on greenhouse gases.