{"id":225670,"date":"2010-01-25T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2010-01-25T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:12:11","slug":"china-to-rich-countries-where%e2%80%99s-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/225670","title":{"rendered":"China to Rich Countries: Where\u2019s The Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 330px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/901ced9b-162a-4436-b66c-6f80afc4cd35_mn-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5813\" title=\"India Climate Change\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/901ced9b-162a-4436-b66c-6f80afc4cd35_mn-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, left, shakes hands with his South African counterpart Buyelwa Sonjica, second right, China&#39;s chief climate change official Xie Zhenhua, second left, and Brazil&#39;s Minister for Environment Carlos Minc. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Remember Copenhagen? It seems so long ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/12\/cop15-meaningful-deal-or-face-saving-measure\/\" >As we wrote<\/a> the Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference ended with a disappointing, non-binding agreement that left China in the driving seat as the de-facto spokesman of the lesser-developed G77 nations.<span id=\"more-5810\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2010\/01\/december-top-ten-players-in-green-energy-nos-5-1\/\" >China not only ensured<\/a> that it and the developing nations would not have to sign the dotted line of a global climate change agreement.\u00a0 It also got the industrialized world to commit to a $10 billion fund to help it and the poor nations it spoke for deal with the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than a month since the end of Copenhagen, China and the rest of the BASIC countries (Brazil, India and South Africa) are asking the industrialized world to make do on its funding commitment and show them the money.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, meeting in New Delhi, China, South Africa and Brazil urged the industrialized world to start distributing the money, which they said should first go to the world&#8217;s least developed nations, including small island states and African countries, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory?id=9648347\" >report the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, as was agreed in Copenhagen as part of the so-called Copenhagen Accord, China, South Africa and India say they will submit to the UN this week their voluntary emissions cutting plans.<\/p>\n<p>The Copenhagen Accord requires all poor countries to propose voluntary actions plans to cut CO2 and GHG, not just the BASIC nations.\u00a0 &#8220;We have the obligation to be the first to submit the action plans,&#8221; South Africa&#8217;s Environment Minister Buyelwa Sonjica told reporters on the side of the New Delhi conference.<\/p>\n<p>China has said it would cut its carbon intensity by 20 percent by 2020 and India by up to 25 percent over the same time period. Carbon intensity is a measure of CO2 emissions per unit of production.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><br \/>\nPhoto Credit: AP Photo\/Mustafa Quraish<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/aXxk0XQh7hE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, left, shakes hands with his South African counterpart Buyelwa Sonjica, second right, China&#39;s chief climate change official Xie Zhenhua, second left, and Brazil&#39;s Minister for Environment Carlos Minc. Remember Copenhagen? It seems so long ago. As we wrote the Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference ended with a disappointing, non-binding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}