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China Sets Its Greenhouse Gas Target

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China surpassed the U.S. as the leader in greenhouse gas emissions two years ago.

A day after the Obama administration issued a provisional target for greenhouse gases, China—the world’s largest emitter of gases—has jumped on the bandwagon and announced it too has set a target to slow its gas emissions by 2020.  —JCL

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The Chinese government announced Thursday that it had set a target to slow the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, a day after the Obama administration set a provisional target for reducing United States emissions.

The Chinese offer, which focuses on energy efficiency, contrasts with the strategy of the United States and most other nations to reduce total emissions. China has resisted demands from American and European negotiators to adopt binding limits on its emissions, arguing that environmental concerns must be balanced with economic growth and that developed countries must first demonstrate a significant commitment to reducing their own emissions.

With its enormous population and breathtaking pace of economic development, China surpassed the United States two years ago as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

It was unclear whether the timing of China’s announcement was coincidental, though the Chinese have been preparing an opening position ahead of international talks on climate change in Copenhagen next month. In the past, Beijing has tried to avoid looking as if it has been directly influenced by American decisions.

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By samosamo, November 28, 2009 at 4:03 am #

Now china, an even older and wiser society than anything the u.s. could come close to has fallen into the ‘follow the leader’ roll of laying out a scheduled plan of reducing pollution emissions but not until the year 2020 and what a slap in the face of life on this planet which is really an extortion set by the need for there to be 11 more years of unfettered, wanton pollution of the planet by the corporate world before it will reduce the pollutant emissions WHICH by that time it will be highly doubtful if there will be much of a society left and with that timeline it could be very indicative of a way to bring the unfettered growth of the human species in line(in short reduce the bloated human footprint on this planet).

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