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Chinese Media Downplays UN Climate Change Report
Beijing (AFP) Feb 03, 2007 China's state-run media Saturday played down fresh warnings on climate change issued by a UN scientific panel, with centrally-controlled television news ignoring the issue altogether. China Central Television in its Friday night and Saturday news broadcasts failed to mention the report by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) that called for international action to slow down global warming. The Communist Party's leading People's Daily ran a three paragraph factual on the report at the bottom of page three in its Saturday edition. Other state-run papers ran Xinhua news agency articles on the climate report on inside pages, while only the Beijing News carried a story on the negative effects that climate change could bring to China, including extended drought in the north and worse flooding in the south. No Chinese language report was seen on China's growing impact on global warming due to its world-leading coal use and its booming automobile industry. However, the English-language China Daily -- published for oversees readers -- plastered news of the UN report on its front page and carried an editorial on the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "China can and must take up the responsibility of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by actively developing renewable energy, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and improving energy efficiency," the paper quoted Li Yan of Greenpeace China, as saying. China, a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, is not committed to cut greenhouse gases due to its status as a developing country. Despite being the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter after the United States, China's per-capita emissions remain only a fraction of those in developed countries, the government has said.
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Energy Chief Calls On China To Improve Efficiency
Tianjin (AFP) Jan 23, 2007The executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Thursday called on China to improve its energy efficiency, underlining that the current growth in consumption was "unacceptable". "If nothing changes, energy consumption in China will grow by more than 50 percent between 2005 and 2030 with fossil fuels remaining dominant, becoming 80 percent of China's energy dependency," said Claude Mandil, director of the IEA, which advises governments on energy security. |
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