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