Wed Oct 29, 2008
By Emma Graham-Harrison and Chris Buckley
BEIJING, Oct 29 (Reuters) - China's greenhouse gas emissions have caught up with the United States and will not any fall any time soon, a top Chinese official said on Wednesday, while warning of a huge economic blow from global warming.
The comments from Xie Zhenhua, a deputy chief of China's National Development and Reform Commission who steers climate change policy, marked a new official acknowledgement that China may be the world's worst offender. http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKPEK127081