China to maintain coal dependence despite growing environmental concerns |
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Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:22
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BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - China has no plans to radically change its reliance on coal and other dirty fuels despite feeling the impact of global warming, said a leading Chinese meteorologist.In the first official Chinese response to a UN report last week on climate change, Qin Dahe said China lacked the technology and financial resources for a wholesale conversion to cleaner energy sources.'To replace 70 pct of China's energy consumption really takes a lot of money,' Qin, who was one of the main authors of the report, told a press conference.The UN report blamed human activities for global warming and warned that the Earth's average surface temperatures could rise by between 1.1 and 6.4 degrees by 2100.China is the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the US.Qin said unseasonably warm temperatures and other weather phenomena in China looked like evidence of climate change.'We can say this winter has been a very warm one (in Beijing). This is clearly related to the tendency of global warming,' said Qin, the head of the China Meteorological Association.Qin said a recent severe drought in southwestern China and lower water levels on the Yangtze River also bore the hallmarks of climate change.afp
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China to limit annual coal output to 2.6 bln tonnes by 2010 