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Posted on Oct 26, 2009
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The Middle Kingdom is not immune to pollution. China’s capital city, choked in smog, is a constant reminder of the downside of rapid development.

China and India, which together represent well over a third of the world’s population, will be negotiating in concert at the upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen. The two booming economies produce most of the developing world’s CO2, but they’ve also made big commitments—China especially—to greening things up.

The new power couple inked a five-year deal last week to ensure that they’re on the same page at the negotiating table.

China and India have similar agendas anyway, but this move will strengthen the position of the two, and other developing nations, at Copenhagen.

Might this also represent a new era of cooperation between the two biggest countries in the world?  —PZS

Christian Science Monitor:

First, it binds the two largest CO2 emitters in the developing world to a common stance at upcoming international negotiations on climate change in Copenhagen, firming up the coalition of poor countries that will square off against industrialized nations.

The five-year pact also points the way toward joint efforts to cut growth in CO2 emissions that the two Asian giants have pledged to make, while resisting fixed targets for such emissions reductions.
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By Folktruther, October 26 at 4:54 pm #

China and India are usually paired in the US mainstream truth to disguise the fact that China is now taking the US’s place as the world’s leading power.  India has only a fraction of China’s industrial production and is growing at abaout half the rate historiclly, 10% vs 6%.

China has been doing a lot to try to curb polution but its coal producted electricity and huge cement and steel production makes it difficult.  IT’s pact with India has geo-strategic implications however, and complements its navy build up in the Indian Ocean.

It is quite true that China is a regional power, but its regions, Asia and Africa, contain three forths of the world’s people.

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