China's Pledge on Carbon Emissions: Is It Enough?

Time by Bryan Walsh | Nov. 28, 2009 (News Analysis)

Just one day after the White House announced that President Barack Obama would attend the U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen and pledge to cut carbon emissions, the Chinese government issued a similar decision: that Premier Wen Jiabao would arrive at the upcoming U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen with a target on carbon emissions reductions in hand. After months of wary negotiation, it seemed that the two biggest carbon emitters in the world ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics, Sci/Tech
Topics: Pollution, United Nations, China, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Nov 28, 2009 - 8:48 AM PST
Reviewed by: Derek Hawkins (review), Norman Rogers (review), Ricardo Pizarro Iturrieta (review)
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Nov 28, 2009 - 8:50 AM PST
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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Dec. 9, 2009

A fair, sober, and most of all realistic analysis of China's pledges to reduce carbon emissions ahead of the Copenhagen talks.

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Norman Rogers
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 by Norman Rogers - Nov. 28, 2009

The advocates of global warming hysteria welcome any vague statement from the Chinese as a breakthrough. The reason is that all the efforts in Europe and US are wasted unless the Chinese reduce CO2. Of course they won't, but they seem happy to make vague statements.

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Ricardo Pizarro Iturrieta
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 by Ricardo Pizarro Iturrieta - Dec. 9, 2009

Yes, because it is a very importante issue

To engage China in a slight reduction of Co2 a small percentage is real and important in this area and that other nations follow

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