Tag: Xie Zhenhua

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Xie Overcame Toxic Spill to Become China’s Top Climate Official

Bloomberg profiles Xie Zhenhua, former head of China’s state environmental protection agency and now the country’s chief negotiator in Copenhagen:Xie, who resigned after an explosion at a PetroChina Co. plant spilled toxic chemicals into the Songhua River, is now in the Danish capital advocating China’s position that richer countries such as the United States should bear most of the b