China yesterday hit back at British accusations that Beijing had "hijacked" the Copenhagen climate change talks, as experts said rich countries are trying to find scapegoats for not reaching a binding agreement.
The chief of Pakistan's naval staff Noman Bashir said he looks forward to see more cooperation in the submarine field between China and his country yesterday during a press interview in the Pakistani embassy in Beijing.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Monday the country played an important and constructive role in pushing the Copenhagen climate talks to earn the current results.
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COPENHAGEN: Frustration prevailed among many Chinese members of non-government environmental organizations as prepared to return home from the United Nations climate change conference.
The informal high-level event hosted by Danish Prime MinisterLars Løkke Rasmussen on Friday gave platform to leaders of major developed and emerging economies a chance to show their vision and make pledges for the world to join hands in a strong deal that will guide the international efforts in tackling climate change.
During his visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the country said it is willing to rejoin the Six-Party Talks, although the timetable is still up in the air.
In order to deal with climate change, efforts should be made simultaneously in fields of politics, economy, society, culture and ecology, a senior Chinese official told Xinhua.
China supported the G77 and other developing countries for removing obstacles and speeding up work on amending the Kyoto Protocol, Xie Zhenhua, China’s chief climate change official, told the press later on Dec 14.
The historic financial regulatory overhaul, not surprisingly, passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday. However, the fate of this reform is hardly sealed and the package is still faced with three exacting challenges if not insurmountable obstacles.
Though there are some people who still believe that climate change is a "conspiracy", global warming - once only in scientists' domain - has become an increasingly incontestable ground reality which demands our serious attention.
COPENHAGEN: Population and climate change are intertwined but the population issue has remained a blind spot when countries discuss ways to mitigate climate change and slow down global warming, according to Zhao Baige, vice-minister of National Population and Family Planning Commission of China (NPFPC) .
Just minutes before the curtains went up on the United Nations' Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Monday, a green activist from Maldives staged an unusual protest.