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What's China doing to fight climate change?

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Climate Change and China's Economic Development

Jennifer Turner is director of the China Environment Forum at the Wilson Centre Policy Think Tank in Washington, D.C. She says she has seen attitudes to climate change evolve in China. In a remarkably short time, China has produced unprecedented economic growth. Has though come with an environmental cost? "There's no alternative because without sufficient reduction by China, together with the rest of us, 1.5 degrees is essentially impossible"

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