In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize today, Al Gore urged the world to do more to tackle the climate crisis, and added: But the outcome will be decisively influenced by two nations that are now failing to do enough: the United States and China. While India is also growing fast in importance, […]
Here below is an excerpt from ChinaDialogue editor Isabel Hilton’s interview with Nobel winning Al Gore about China and India: IH: There are people, of course, who say, “What’s the point of acting, as long as China and India are not constrained to act?” AG: Well, the truth is that China and India will have […]
From Shanghaiist: Georgia Popplewell of Global Voices Online has offered a great summary of reactions from the international blogosphere to Friday’s announcement that former US vice president Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The China section was a real gem and we thought […]
Al Gore apparently isn’t listening to the nay-sayers on China’s prospects for green growth. From Reuters via The Age: “There are ways to leap-frog the old, dirty technologies,” said Gore, who was speaking at the Global Brand Forum in Singapore. China, like other developing nations, is worried that plans to cut carbon emissions would cripple […]
From The Daily Telegragh: Labor leader Kevin Rudd wants Australia to use its vast coal resources to pressure the Chinese into reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Mr Rudd will lead a team of shadow ministers, scientists and businessmen to China in the next three months to negotiate an agreement. “Unless we deal with China effectively […]
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