Global warming: China intensifies carbon reduction and reaffirms 2030 emissions target

By Philip Wen
Updated July 1 2015 - 7:18pm, first published 4:45am
A worker rides a bike through the Xinwu Coal Mine near Liulin, Shanxi Province. China is burning less coal in line with its emissions targets. Photo: Qilai Shen
A worker rides a bike through the Xinwu Coal Mine near Liulin, Shanxi Province. China is burning less coal in line with its emissions targets. Photo: Qilai Shen

Beijing: China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has submitted a new carbon intensity reduction target to the United Nations while reaffirming its goal to curb carbon emissions by 2030, or "even earlier".

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