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+ Rich nations trying to kill Kyoto pact, says China (So why is our left-wing government nd Congress to focussed on Cap and Trade and the Copenhagen Treaty??)
Reuters (Oct. 2009):
http://www.reuters.com/article/lates...s/idUSSP280493
"... developing nations are not obliged to meet hard, economy-wide targets and won't agree to such targets in any new agreement."
"... they fear ... wealthy states wriggling out of meeting tough, binding emissions cuts."
+ China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants / NY Times (May 2009):
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/wo...ia/11coal.html
"China now uses more coal than the United States, Europe and Japan combined ..."
"... China has emerged in the past two years as the world’s leading builder of more efficient, less polluting coal power plants ..."
"Even among China’s newly built plants, not all are modern. Only about 60 percent of the new plants are being built using newer technology ..."
"The most efficient plants ... cut global warming emissions by more than a third compared with the weakest plants."
"... the I.E.A. cut its forecast of the annual increase in Chinese emissions of global warming gases, to 3 percent from 3.2 percent ..."
+ China CO2 Emissions Growing Faster Than Anticipated / National Geographic News (March 2008):
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...a-warming.html
"... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had predicted that China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would rise by about 2.5 to 5 percent each year between 2004 and 2010.
"But the estimates are two to four times too low, according to new research ... the University of California, Berkeley."
+ Weaknesses In Chinese Wind Power / Forbes (July 2009):
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/20/chi...rgy-china.html
"... about 30% of its wind power assets are not in use--much of that not even connected to the transmission grid--a result of Chinese power companies turning to wind ... to satisfy on paper ..."
"Whether the massive new building push will be any more efficient is an open question, given that much of it is slated for out of the way places, mainly in the north, making it uneconomical to build the lengthy extensions to China's grid that would be required to transmit the power to distant population centers."
+ Can China Catch a Cool Breeze? / Nation (April 2009):
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090504/parenti/3
"One of the ways rich economies can meet some of their reduction targets is by paying for green energy projects in poor economies. This North-to-South subsidy scheme is the CDM."
"'In China about 100 percent of wind projects get CDM subsidies,' ... China accounts for about one-quarter of the program's total capacity, which transfers about $5 billion a year from wealthy industrialized economies to developing economies."
+ A wary respect / The Economist (Oct. 2009):
http://www.economist.com/specialrepo...ry_id=14678579
"With America’s economy in tatters and China’s still growing fast (albeit not as fast as before last year’s financial crisis), many politicians and intellectuals in both China and America feel that the balance of power is shifting more rapidly in China’s favor."
+ What recession? China has second-highest number of billionaires as nation's super-rich buck financial crisis / Daily Mail (Oct. 2009):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl....html?ITO=1490
"China now has more known dollar billionaires than any other country except the United States, according to a report released today."
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