China is set on curbing fossil fuels: climate chief - Reuters

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China is set on curbing fossil fuels: climate chief

Reuters
Tuesday, February 6, 2007; 2:18 AM

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top climate official said on Tuesday that Beijing is
determined to curb the use of fossil fuels behind global warming, but deflected
questions of whether the big emitter will accept caps on greenhouse gases.

Qin Dahe, chief of the China Meteorological Administration, said the nation's
leaders worried that global warming, bringing intensifying droughts, floods and
heat waves in its wake, would undermine development goals.

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Asked what China planned to do, Qin stressed Beijing's commitment to improving
energy efficiency by 20 percent in coming years, and to shifting the country
from overwhelming dependence on coal, one of the main fuel sources of
greenhouse gases.

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But Qin did not directly answer questions about whether China would accept
a cap on emissions, instead stressing that the country needed support to buy
clean-energy technology.

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