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China vows to cut greenhouse gases
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-01 15:19
China urged the US to join the Kyoto treaty Wednesday, rejecting arguments
that the pact is flawed because it fails to restrict emissions by developing
countries.
An environmental activist erects a 'climate
mosaic' in a park across from the site where the UN Climate Change
Conference is being held in Montreal, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005. Over 6,000
of the mini artworks have been contributed by people from around the
world, [AP] |
China's Sun Guoshunis said his
country was already cutting the polluting emmisions, adding it was unfair to
expect China and India �� with the world's largest populations �� to ask their
impoverished people to cut back on energy consumption.
"We really feel pity that the US has not yet, and is not going to join the
Kyoto Protocol, not only because of the size of its total emissions, but also
because of its higher per capita emissions," Sun, director of the Department of
Treaty and Law at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in an interview
with The Associated Press.
He spoke during the first meeting of the 140 countries that have ratified the
Kyoto Protocol since it was signed in 1997 and went into effect in February.
More than 8,000 environmentalists, scientists and government officials were
attending the 10-day conference in Montreal. Some 120 environment ministers and
other government leaders were expected to arrive next week for the final
negotiations.
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