China: US Should Take Lead on Climate

December 7, 2007 By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer China: US Should Take Lead on Climate (AP)

Activists with their body painted, are blocked by Indonesian police officers as they march toward the venue of the U.N. climate change conference during a demonstration in Nusa Dua on Bali island, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 7, 2007. Delegates from 190 nations assembled on the resort island from Dec. 3-14 for the annual climate meeting which is focused chiefly on launching a two-year negotiating process to seal a deal to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

(AP) -- China said Friday it will not consider mandatory cuts on greenhouse gases, saying the United States and other industrialized countries should take the lead in fighting climate change by embracing a less-extravagant lifestyle.



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