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• Debate: Is climate change chiefly human-caused?

Supporting evidence

• "China Defends Record on Fighting Global Warming". PlanetArk. November 15th, 2006

• "China ratifies global warming treaty". CNN.com. September 4, 2002 - "China, Asia's fastest growing economy, has promulgated many environmental protection measures and laws despite skepticism the development-hungry nation is not ready to embrace such moves.

Sustainable development was moved to the top of Beijing's agenda after it announced its first five-year "green" plan in March, 2001.

Zhu has stressed the need to clean the air, polluted rivers, lakes and water catchments as well as combat a worsening desertification problem.

Almost $8 billion has been earmarked for projects including reforestation, pollution control and water conservation for the five years up to 2005."

• "China Unveils Global Warming Initiative." Mongabay.com. June 5, 2007

• Jim Yardley and Andrew C. Revkin. "China plan on global warming". The New York Times. June 6th, 2007

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