The head of the UN climate change body yesterday said he expected China would today become the “world leader” in combating climate change when Hu Jintao, the country's president, addressed a summit of heads of government.
Mr Hu would announce measures that “will take Chinese emissions very significantly away from where they would have been and are,” Yvo de Boer said. It will be “quite ironic”, he added, to hear that “in a country [the US] that is firmly convinced that China is doing nothing to address climate change”.
World leaders will be watching to see if Mr Hu spells out a so-called “carbon-intensity target” in his speech.
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