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President Hu Jintao commits China to carbon-cutting deal

President Hu of China threw his country's weight behind the campaign to fight climate change today when he promised to reduce the carbon intensity of his country's economic growth. ...full story at Times Online

from Times Online on Tue, Sep 22 2009

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