China unveils climate change plan Climate change Guardian Unlimited Environment: "Country vows to 'blaze new path to industrialisation' and invest in green energy, without committing to emissions targets.
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Monday June 4, 2007
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A pond filled with dead fish on the outskirts of Wuhan, in Hubei province. About 125,000kg of fish have reportedly died in China in the last three days due to water pollution. Photograph: Reuters
China vowed to 'blaze a new path to industrialisation' today as it unveiled its first national plan on climate change.
But in a blow to efforts to tackle global warming, the world's second biggest producer of greenhouse gases refused to accept binding targets for emissions, saying wealthy developed nations must take the bulk of the responsibility for the problem."
Monday, June 04, 2007
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