This Call Is Rich Coming From The World's Largest Polluter

China of all places churning out the second and third rate goods the world including us are so addicted to hops on a high horse criticizing industrialized nations for ignoring climate change while they lead the world in unadulterated toxic carbon output.

Rich nations should ditch 'unsustainable' lifestyles:

♦China's Wen: "Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and a top UN official urged industrialised nations Friday to alter their lifestyles and not let the global financial crisis hamper climate change efforts.

Industrialised nations should also help developing countries respond to climate change, Wen said at the opening of a two-day international meeting on global warming in Beijing.

'The developed countries have a responsibility and an obligation to respond to global climate change by altering their unsustainable way of life,' the state news agency Xinhua quoted him as saying.

'As the global financial crisis spreads and worsens, and the world economy slows down, the international community must not waver in its determination to tackle climate change.'

The gathering in Beijing is focused on the development and transfer of technology that can help tackle climate change ahead of next month's talks on creating a new global treaty on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Representatives from 76 nations are attending.

China proposed last week that rich nations devote one percent of their economic output to helping poor countries fight global warming.

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said Friday a lack of firm funding commitments could derail efforts to cut emissions in developing countrie"

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