Financial Times - China "Indefinitely Delays" Comprehensive Climate Action Plan

[hatrack]

China has delayed indefinitely its national “action plan” on climate change, which was due to be released on Monday after exhaustive consultations among ministries in Beijing and provincial and local governments.

No explanation was given for the move, although global warming is causing increasing international concern about the country’s high-speed economic growth model. China has delayed the long-awaited release of its policy response to climate change, an issue that is increasingly focusing international attention on the country’s high-speed economic growth model.

The action plan would be China’s first considered response to the latest science on climate change and would provide the basis for its position in negotiations for a possible post-Kyoto international accord.

China has resisted setting mandatory targets for emissions but will propose cutting emissions of greenhouse gases per unit of economic output by 40 per cent from 2000 to 2020, according to Reuters. (emphasis added)

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/be763e8c-f1d6-11db-b5b6-000b5df10621.html

Who knew the Bush climate plan could translate so neatly into Chinese?

[damntexdem]

1. China and the USA: joint enablers on failing to act on climate change.

[jwirr]

2. Yeah, they ran into the same problems as *ss and co.

You cannot get rich if you cannot pollute - or so they think.