China: Climate Talks Yielded ‘positive’ Results (ap)

A chimney of a plant that produces heating for buildings emits smoke near a residential apartment in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. Two years of laborious negotiations on a climate agreement ended Friday in Copenhagen with a political deal brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers but denounced by poor countries because it was nonbinding and set no overall target for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo) -- CHINA OUT --AP – China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, lauded Sunday the outcome of a historic U.N. climate conference that ended with a nonbinding agreement that urges major polluters to make deeper emissions cuts — but does not require it.

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