Wednesday, September 23, 2009
China commits to carbon cuts
UNITED NATIONS–America talked. Canada watched. But it was China that led yesterday in an unprecedented global gathering to meet the challenge of climate change.
In a vivid example of eastern leadership, President Hu Jintao told a United Nations summit of nearly 100 world leaders that China would voluntarily deliver a four-part package of near-term carbon-cutting commitments, including the planting of nearly 40 million hectares of emissions-absorbing forest.
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Really like this....don't know what to call it!
I had not read the news about plans to plant the forest. I'm pleasantly stunned.
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