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China Mulling Clinton's Climate Change Offer
Kent Garber
Climate Change: Global Carbon Footprint
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"What do you think of
Looking away, Yafei said nothing.
Another Chinese official,asked the same question a few minutes later, said, "The press conferenceby the minister is over. I myself have another meeting to attend."
When
Secretary of State
Officialsfrom
But how this regime would work isn'tclear-cut. It could involve international inspectors or third-partyauditors, something that
The fight, experts on the ground say, is more than just a technicalone. Rather, it involves weighty issues, among them respect, economiccompetitiveness, and even U.S. politics.
"One question is how acountry measures its emissions,"says Peter Goldmark, climate directorfor the
In 2008, forexample,
In
To get a climate bill through the
On top of that, any international pact would create a global marketfor buying and selling carbon permits--basically, pieces of paper sayingthat someone somewhere has reduced emissions by some amount--andbusinesses are worried that the market will fail if people have doubtsabout whether the permits mean anything.
That's why Sen.
In something of a signthat
Perhaps the bigger concern, which
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