China steps up as climate change leader
President Hu Jintao told a United Nations summit of nearly 100 world leaders that China would voluntarily deliver a four-part package of near-term carbon-cutting commitments, including the planting of nearly 40 million hectares of emissions-absorbing forest.
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Al Gore, the U.S. politician turned climate activist, hailed China's "impressive leadership. It's not widely known ... but China in each of the last two years has planted 2 1/2 times more trees than the entire rest of the world put together."
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