Climate Change

During the climate change negotiations at the Copenhagen summit, China refused to accept international monitoring of its emissions levels, maintaining that China’s laws would guarantee compliance. As the US climate change negotiator declared that "[no] public funds, certainly not from the US, [is] going to China", China quickly changed its propaganda headline from ""for the sake of humanity, the Copenhagen conference must succeed" to a much less inspiring "We must work together for the sake of humanity". Meanwhile, China was clearly installed as the leader of the developing countries bloc, forcing African countries to break from a group of "most vulnerable countries" after Tuvalu, much to China's dismay, called for discussions on a legally binding amendment to the Kyoto Protocol that would set targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for major emerging economies including China.