Latest comments posted about China and the US: moving forward on climate (part one) on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1665-China-and-the-US-moving-forward-on-climate-part-one- http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1665-China-and-the-US-moving-forward-on-climate-part-one- It is imperative for China and the US, along with rest of the world, to pursue actions that will curb global climate change. However, the changing climate is not concerned with stakeholders' interests- the climate won't wait for us to get over our differences. The US and China both need to begin to implement robust climate change policies. I commend the two countries for the action they have taken. However, we have to cut emissions 80% by 2050 to stabilize the climate. Climate change policies, such as China's plan to cut 20% ghg emissions "per GDP" by 2013 is meaningless. We saw this same attempt at fake climate change policy from the Bush Administration in 2002. The economy, particularly in China, is growing at a fast enough rate that to cut ghg intensity does not equal cuts in overall output. In fact, as an economy evolves form manufacturing to services, such as in the US, ghg intensity necessarily decreases- not overall output, though. We need REAL solutions from both China and the US- no more lip service! CUNappo Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:28:32 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1665#comment-7037 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1665#comment-7037