توقعات از چین برای پذیرش نقش جدی در التزام به کاهش گازهای گلخانه ای در حال افزایش است. چین اعلام کرده است که گامی جاه طلبانه در این زمینه برخواهد داشت و در نقشی مانند یک رهبر حضور پیدا خواهد کرد. این در حالی است که بر اساس برخی گزارش ها این کشور از ایالات متحده در انتشار گازهای گلخانه ای پیشی گرفته است.

By Anne Chaon (AFP) – 3 hours ago

UNITED NATIONS — Expectations were building for China to take the lead on climate change, as some 100 world leaders gather Tuesday to breathe new life into deadlocked negotiations.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon called the biggest-ever summit of national leaders on climate change some 100 days before a high stakes gathering in Copenhagen, which is meant to seal a successor to the landmark Kyoto Protocol.

US President Barack Obama, who is fighting to push climate change legislation through the Congress, will address the summit on the eve of the annual UN General Assembly in New York.

But the spotlight may fall on President Hu Jintao of China, which according to some measures has surpassed the United States as the top emitter of greenhouse gases blamed for a dangerous rise in global temperatures.

Chinese officials have spent recent days in private talks billing Hu's address as a major announcement.

UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said he was advised that China would make "an ambitious" statement at the summit.

"This policy will make China become the world leader on climate change," de Boer told a small group of reporters.

"I have very high expectations on what President Hu will be announcing," he said, explaining that the measures will "take Chinese emissions very significantly away from where they would have been without a climate policy."