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Australian firm strikes $60B coal deal with China

By : sustainabilityo..., Feb 6, 2010

Australian company Resourcehouse Ltd. said Saturday that it has struck a $60 billion, 20-year agreement to supply coal to China Power International Development Ltd., calling it Australia's biggest export contract.

The deal is the latest in a string of major contracts...

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Subject Tags: Business , China , Technology

China Insists That Its Steps on Climate Be Voluntary

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 30, 2010

As a Sunday target date approaches for countries to submit to the United Nations their plans for fighting climate change, China is banding together with other major developing nations to stress that only the wealthier countries need to make internationally binding commitments...

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India, China agree to cooperate on climate change

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 23, 2009

Fresh from the solidarity displayed at the Copenhagen Summit on climate change, India and China on Tuesday agreed to continue cooperating on the issue in the coming months in order to safeguard the interests of developing countries.

In a telephonic conversation,...

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Subject Tags: China

Climate Change and China's Global Responsibilities

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 23, 2009
There should be little surprise that the Copenhagen Conference fared as badly as it did. For far too long, major governments refused to recognize the reality that achieving a global treaty at Copenhagen would not prove feasible. No later than early this past...
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Subject Tags: China , Environment

U.S., China, India reach climate change deal

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 19, 2009

U.S. President Barack Obama forged a climate pact with major developing nations including China on Friday but European nations only reluctantly signed up for a deal they criticised as unambitious.

All sides conceded the agreement -- the first pact for fighting global...

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Subject Tags: China , Technology

India, China’s CDM success becomes the world’s envy

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 19, 2009

As global negotiators failed to thrash out a climate change deal, the world’s least developed nations made it known that any new version of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) should include them.

They have a point. CDM, a system that funds clean technology in...

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Subject Tags: China , India , Technology

China announces planned emissions cuts

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 26, 2009

China announced Thursday that it will cut its economy's carbon intensity by up to 45 percent by 2020, the state news agency Xinhua said, and that Premier Wen Jiabao will participate in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month.

The move by the world's...

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China, India push for 'patent free' green tech

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 23, 2009

As world leaders prepare for climate talks in Copenhagen next month, developing nations have tabled a controversial proposal which would effectively end patent protection for clean technologies.

China and India have floated the idea of making new green technology...

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WEO 2009 outlines bleak outlook for India but there's hope too

By : Anonymous, Nov 17, 2009

Going by the World Energy Outlook report, India has a bleak period ahead. By 2030, world primary energy demand is set to shoot up 40% higher than in 2007, with India and China accounting for 53% of the...

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Obama in 11th-hour climate bid with China, India

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 12, 2009

With the clock ticking on the high-stakes Copenhagen climate summit, US President Barack Obama will try to salvage fading hopes for a deal as he meets this month with the leaders of China and India.

Obama on Sunday starts his closely watched debut trip to China. A week...

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