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"Captain Compassion" |
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22 May 2007 09:29:58 AM |
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Global warming fight up to rich nations: China |
Global warming fight up to rich nations: China
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21775141-30417,00.html
May 22, 2007
RICH nations must do more to fight global warming and allow poorer
countries to pursue sustainable economic development, one of China's
top diplomats said in comments published today.
China is willing to play its role in tackling climate change but the
onus rests on the developed world to tackle the problem, State
Councillor Tang Jiaxuan told a visiting United Nations envoy on global
warming yesterday.
“Tang demanded that developed nations take a lead on greenhouse gas
emission reduction and provide assistance to developing countries in
terms of technology transfer and capital,” the official Xinhua news
agency reported.
Developing countries, such as China, should in the meantime be allowed
to pursue “sustainable development,” Tang told envoy Han Seung-soo.
Xinhua reported that Tang was making his comments in the context of
rising international pressure on China, which is the second biggest
emitter of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions, to do more to
fight global warming.
“(But) the developed nations have both the responsibility and
capability to contribute more to (fighting) climate change,” Xinhua
quoted Tang as saying.
Tang highlighted China's efforts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide
and other greenhouse gases, and said the Asian nation was committed to
working with the rest of the world.
“Only when developed and developing nations join hands can climate
change be solved fundamentally,” he said.
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett yesterday added her voice
to the growing chorus of international leaders urging China to step up
its efforts on climate change, although she acknowledged the nation's
commitment on the issue.
“They really have made some quite remarkable progress, but of course
they want to, and we all need them to, make still more progress,”
Beckett told a news conference in Hong Kong as she wrapped up a
six-day tour of China.
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There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Celibacy in healthy human beings is a form of
insanity. -- Captain Compassion
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| User: "Jerry Kraus" |
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| Title: Re: Global warming fight up to rich nations: China |
22 May 2007 11:20:06 AM |
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On May 22, 9:29 am, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
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Global warming fight up to rich nations: Chinahttp://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21775141-30417,00....
Translation: "We are Confucians, we don't buy into total nonsense."
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| User: "Captain Compassion" |
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| Title: Re: Global warming fight up to rich nations: China |
22 May 2007 02:09:33 PM |
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On 22 May 2007 09:20:06 -0700, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1999@yahoo.com>
wrote:
On May 22, 9:29 am, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:
Global warming fight up to rich nations: Chinahttp://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21775141-30417,00....
Translation: "We are Confucians, we don't buy into total nonsense."
:)
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Celibacy in healthy human beings is a form of
insanity. -- Captain Compassion
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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