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[WRI Stories Feed: All] WRI's Lash On China's New Carbon Intensity Target | World ...: “This shows that international engagement on climate change can produce real results.” With yesterday's announcement by President Barack Obama that he will call for a U.S. emission-reduction target of 17 percent below 2005 levels in .

[The Dernogalizer] China Announces “Carbon Intensity” Target « The Dernogalizer:  BBC environment correspondent Richard Black says that on that basis the US figure amounts to just a few percentage points, as its emissions have risen by about 15% since 1990.  This is much less than the EU’s pledge of a 20% cut over the same period, or a 30% cut if there is a global deal;

[WRI Stories Feed: All] China's State Council Unveils 40-45% Carbon Intensity Target ...: The goal marks a shift in Chinese policy from focusing separately on three major components of its climate policy—energy efficiency, the mix of energy sources, and reforestation policy—to creating a single metric that focuses directly on the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. It is thus more complex to manage than the separate measurement for the different aspects of the policy, but it may give local and provincial governments more flexibility in optimizing the mix of measures they choose to reduce greenhouse gases.

[World Affairs Board] China sets targets for 2020 carbon cuts: With its enormous population and breathtaking pace of economic development, China surpassed the United States two years ago as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. However, it resisted earlier demands from American and European negotiators to adopt binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that environmental concerns must be balanced with economic growth and that developed countries must first demonstrate a significant commitment to reducing emissions.

[Resources for a sustainable future] China unveils emissions targets ahead of Copenhagen | Resources ...: by 40-45%  by the year 2020, compared with 2005 levels.   Carbon intensity, China’s preferred measurement, is the amount of   carbon dioxide emitted for each unit of GDP.      But our correspondent says it does not mean China’s overall levels  of carbon dioxide will start falling.   Its economy is still growing and is mostly fuelled by polluting   coal, says the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville in Beijing. 

[Center for Global Leadership] China and USA pledge hard targets on emissions « Center for Global ...: A senior Obama administration official said that the United States had pressed hard for a public commitment from China and was relieved that it had delivered. But the official, who spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of the matter, called the carbon intensity figure “disappointing,” and said that the administration hoped it represented a gambit that would be negotiated upward at Copenhagen or in subsequent talks.

[India Server - News] China Announces 40-45% Emission Cuts By 2020: Yang noted that the announcement by China is yet another commitment for the climate coming from a major developing country ahead of the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit. "This is another challenge to the industrialised world, particularly the US, which has just announced an inadequate emissions reduction target of only 4-5 percent by 2020."

[Sindh Today - Online News] Sindh Today - Online News » China announces ambitious emission ...: New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Green NGOs were elated Thursday after China announced ambitious cuts in the carbon intensity of its economy by 2020 in a major boost to the global effort to tackle climate change.

[cop15.dk News] Investors happy about announcements from China and the US - COP15 ...: Consequently, Allianz Global Investors predict the big winners from the upcoming Copenhagen climate change conference to be "renewable energy technology providers" and "early corporate adopters of emissions reduction measures," New Energy World Network (NewNet) reports.

[Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion] China Sets 2020 Emissions Target in Interest of National Security ...: The 2020 carbon intensity target announced today by the State Council takes those efforts a step farther. The target is a 40-45 percent cut in CO2 emissions from 2005 levels relative to gross domestic product, so it won’t mean an actual drop in emissions unless China’s economy stops growing at its current rapid pace, but it will slow the growth of emissions.

[The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories] Obama's Secret Climate Pact - The Daily Beast: The emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit that a whistle blower leaked out into the media, now known as "climategate," prove what a fraud Algore, Copenhagen and the so-called "Global Warming" really is. Now this nimcompoop of a president is going to go across the globe and commit to spending trillions more of the US taxpayers money that we don't have on a HOAX.

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - Mark Mardell's America: Is Obama serious about climate change?: How will President Obama convince Americans that they must make enormous sacrifices when India and China won't commit to the same? China and India take the position that the developed world created the problem, benefitted from CO2 production up to now and therefore should be the ones to make all the cuts.

[Kiwiblog] Obama's emissions target | Kiwiblog: However I and my partner have just [couple of hours ago] purchased an timber entertainment unit and a bookshelf unit, and after paying for them, I was told in fact they are New Zealand pine [stained], which puzzled me because earlier I was informed they were made in China – and, yes, the timber has been exported to China, made up there into furniture, and imported back.

[Firedoglake] Firedoglake » Something to be Thankful for: China's Seeing the ...: A big problem for China is while the central government knows what needs to be done, until recently the separate provinces, many of which have got addicted to the rivers of gold of the last decade, have tended to resist anything that impacts their gravy train. Putting the pictures on TV is a way of getting around the mayors and other provincial leaders and going straight to the people —

[WSJ.com: China Real Time Report] Speculation Heats Up Over China's Copenhagen Plans - China Real ...: China Real Time Report is a vital resource for an expanding global community trying to keep up with a country changing minute by minute. The site offers quick insight and sharp analysis from the wide network of Dow Jones reporters across Greater China, including Dow Jones Newswires' specialists and The Wall Street Journal's award-winning team.

[Switchboard, from NRDC] Switchboard, from NRDC :: Alex Wang's Blog :: Obama in China: What ...: The US and China can start this week to pave the road to a strong agreement next year by putting an agreement in place that includes a strong step forward on green-tech collaboration, while establishing intensive collaboration on the governance structures and techniques for measuring and tracking GHG emissions reductions that would result from climate action.

[Earth Matters News] Obama to personally take emissions reduction promise to Copenhagen ...: The president will commit to the near-term US emissions reduction target of 17 percent as long as China and other emerging nations made serious pledges of their own, a White House statement said.

[Richard Black's Earth Watch] BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: China completes the climate circle: Since the heat is actually being absorbed by the tropopause and since the energy would tend to travel from warmer to colder regions AND since the convection would assist with the transportation of heat specifically to the colder tropopause...any temperature increase would be disproportionately represented in the tropopause and (ain't it a hoot) if the temperature of that region went up AT ALL it would increase its emissions and offset a great deal of the absorption.

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