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CHINA SAYS DOMESTIC SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CRUX TO COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE
By Tham Choy Lin
BEIJING, Oct 29 (Bernama) -- China said it will combat climate change within its domestic agenda of sustainable development as it seeks to address unbalanced economic growth and the large gap between urban and rural incomes.
"Developing the economy and improving people's lives are imperative
tasks currently facing China," the government said in a white paper on climate
change
released Wednesday.
The document said as a developing country, China still has "a long way to
go in its industrialisation, urbanisation and modernisation."
Adapting to climate change is a priority, the document said.
"China combines the handling of climate change with its execution of its
sustainable development strategy, acceleration of building a resource-conserving
and environmental friendly society and construction of a country of innovation,"
it added.
The government repeated its call to developed nations to take the lead in
cutting greenhouse gas emissions and to fund and transfer emission reduction
technologies to developing nations.
China said that the country would be unable to make big cuts in greenhouse
gas emissions in the near future because it cannot change its dependence on coal
nor could it change its ongoing industrialisation process.
"China will strive for rational growth of energy demand," the
document said.
"However, its coal-dominated energy mix cannot be substantially change in
the near future, thus making the control of greenhouse as emissions rather
difficult," the policy paper said.
The 44-page document was issued ahead of a high-level United Nations
conference on climate change here next week.
China's 1.3 billion population, a fifth of the global count, meant it has
to create more jobs, with poverty remains an issue.
"The country is still troubled by poverty, with an impoverished rural
population of 14.79 million inadequately fed and clad," the document
said.
China pointed out that the country's per capita gross domestic product was
US$2,461 last year, ranking 106th out of 181 countries according to
International Monetary Fund statistics.
China was not spared by global warming with temperatures across the
country having risen by 1.1 degrees Celsius over the past century, warmer
winters, more
summer heat waves and droughts, snow disasters, desertification, and hotter and
rising sea levels, the document outlined.
BEIJING, Oct 29 (Bernama) -- China said it will combat climate change within its domestic agenda of sustainable development as it seeks to address unbalanced economic growth and the large gap between urban and rural incomes.
"Developing the economy and improving people's lives are imperative
tasks currently facing China," the government said in a white paper on climate
change
released Wednesday.
The document said as a developing country, China still has "a long way to
go in its industrialisation, urbanisation and modernisation."
Adapting to climate change is a priority, the document said.
"China combines the handling of climate change with its execution of its
sustainable development strategy, acceleration of building a resource-conserving
and environmental friendly society and construction of a country of innovation,"
it added.
The government repeated its call to developed nations to take the lead in
cutting greenhouse gas emissions and to fund and transfer emission reduction
technologies to developing nations.
China said that the country would be unable to make big cuts in greenhouse
gas emissions in the near future because it cannot change its dependence on coal
nor could it change its ongoing industrialisation process.
"China will strive for rational growth of energy demand," the
document said.
"However, its coal-dominated energy mix cannot be substantially change in
the near future, thus making the control of greenhouse as emissions rather
difficult," the policy paper said.
The 44-page document was issued ahead of a high-level United Nations
conference on climate change here next week.
China's 1.3 billion population, a fifth of the global count, meant it has
to create more jobs, with poverty remains an issue.
"The country is still troubled by poverty, with an impoverished rural
population of 14.79 million inadequately fed and clad," the document
said.
China pointed out that the country's per capita gross domestic product was
US$2,461 last year, ranking 106th out of 181 countries according to
International Monetary Fund statistics.
China was not spared by global warming with temperatures across the
country having risen by 1.1 degrees Celsius over the past century, warmer
winters, more
summer heat waves and droughts, snow disasters, desertification, and hotter and
rising sea levels, the document outlined.
