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Article: China acts on climate change.
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- Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2009
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Climate change is a serious challenge to humanity and sustainable development, which requires both proactive responses and concerted effort by the international community.
China attaches great importance to tackling climate change. In 2007, it established the National Leading Group on Climate Change (NLGCC), headed by Premier Wen Jiabao. That same year, China issued its National Climate Change Programme, the first ever by a developing country.
In its National Climate Change Programme, China set an objective to lower its energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20 per cent or so of 2005 level by 2010 and in its Mid and Long-Term Plan for the Development of ...