The head of the UN climate change body on Monday said he expected China would on Tuesday become the “world leader” in combating climate change when Hu Jintao, the country’s president, addressed a summit of heads of government.
Mr Hu would announce measures that would “take Chinese emissions very significantly away from where they would have been and are”, Yvo de Boer said. It would be “quite ironic”, he added, to hear that “in a country [the US] that is firmly convinced that China is doing nothing to address climate change”.
