The Greening of China
As China's Guangdong Province has boomed, it has exported its environmental degradation to Hong Kong. But, while officials have been slow to act, people and companies have exerted growing pressure for change, resulting in several initiatives that could serve as models for all of China.
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Two countries – the United States and China – remain aloof from global efforts to create a new post-Kyoto framework on climate change. Fifty years ago, the rest of the world might have carried on with remedying the problem of conventional and greenhouse gas emissions and let China and the US stew in their own waste. But the world is now so interdependent that what happens in one place affects all others.