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UN halts funds to China wind farms

By Kathrin Hille and Geoff Dyer in Beijing and Fiona Harvey in London

Published: December 1 2009 23:00 | Last updated: December 1 2009 23:00

The United Nations body in charge of managing carbon trading has suspended approvals for dozens of Chinese wind farms amid questions over the country’s use of industrial policy to obtain money under the scheme.

UN carbon trading scheme

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FT interactive graphic: explore the technologies adopted and various developing nations’ level of participation

China has been by far the biggest beneficiary of the so-called Clean Development Mechanism, a carbon trading system designed to direct funds from wealthy countries to developing nations to cut greenhouse gases.

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