China Seeks to Cap Fossil Fuel Emissions For First Time, Will Act as Early as Possible

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China is working on how to cap its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time, an effort that would help spur worldwide momentum to hold back climate change. The world's biggest producer of fossil fuel emissions has been studying for more than a year how and when it might be able to make its pollution levels peak and hopes to act as soon as possible, said Xie Zhenhua, China's lead envoy to the United Nations climate change talks June 5-15 in Bonn. "China will behave in a very responsible way for Chinese people and the world, and we will try our utmost to peak as early as possible," Xie said in an interview with Bloomberg and other news organizations at the Bonn talks. "We are working very hard and trying to find a balanced equilibrium between environmental protection and economic development."