I'm not surprised by this. China is still putting economy #1, no matter what lip service they pay to CO2 controls. It's gonna take a major glacier falling off a Himalayan peak and cutting off water to a couple tens of millions of Chinese to make them wake up -- actually I think it will take a bloody eco-revolution.
Meanwhile, we'll hear this:
"Never again should we face the deadlock that threatened to pull down those talks. Never again should we let a global deal to move towards a greener future be held to ransom by only a handful of countries," he said.
While Brown refrained from naming countries, his climate change minister Ed Miliband said China had led a group of countries that "hijacked" the negotiations which had at times presented "a farcical picture to the public".
The agreement finally put together by a select group of leaders set no target for greenhouse-gas emissions cuts and is not legally binding -- omissions Miliband blamed on Beijing.
"We did not get an agreement on 50 percent reductions in global emissions by 2050 or on 80 percent reductions by developed countries," he wrote in The Guardian.
"Both were vetoed by China, despite the support of a coalition of developed and the vast majority of developing countries."
So again I have the question: if China really signed on to a climate treaty with impact, what would they get in return?
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