1.1. China rules out linking climate aid to transparency 19
November 2010, Reuters China said on Friday it will not agree to
any deal linking rich nations' aid to its acceptance of tighter
oversight of efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The
remarks from Huang Huikang, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's
special representative for climate change talks, laid bare rifts
between Beijing and rich countries -- especially the United
States -- that could trouble high-level negotiations in Cancun,
Mexico. China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases
from human activity, will be a key player when almost 200
governments meet in Cancun from late this month to try to agree
on a "green fund" for poor countries and other building blocks
for a comprehensive new agreement to combat global warming.
Cancun is meant to be the stepping stone to a legally binding
deal next year that would lock governments into reducing the
greenhouse gas pollution holding more solar heat in the
atmosphere and threatening to tip into d