1. Carbon debate creates
climate for China's
civil society to grow
Shi Jiangtao in Beijing
If there has been awinner fr om global
w warming on the mainland, it is the
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a. Growing public awareness of the They're supposed to be saving the
issues surrounding climate change planet, but delegates to the UN
s has galvanised environmental
groups, helped raise their profiles
climate talks arrive in private jets and
are ferried around Copenhagen in a
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poliryrecommendations to the gov-
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attention and whose activities offi- lnsight
a cialdom has severely restricted. It's better to end the climate summit
s. Dr Liu Bin (#U;E), a climate ' in the Danish capitalwith no deal
researcher at Tsinghua University rather than a bad one lllT
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China's negotiating team at the UN's
climate summit in Copenhagen, said than half said worse was to come.
? there had been a clear change in pub- Four out of five said their lifestyles
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"It used to be a scientific issue more than 70 per cent were willing to
confined to a small academic circle, do something to reduce carbon
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but it is one ofthe hottest topics ofour
time. It is not that the topic itself has
undergone much change or climate
emissions, such as buyrng environ-
mentally friendly products and gen-
erating less waste, according to the
O threat has exacerbated dramatically; poll, conducted by the China Youth
Y the international political environ- D aily, intemetnews portal Sohu. com
ment has changed, and so has our and the British Council.
attitude towards the issue." In a sign of the interest in climate
The talks in the Danish capital on change, joumalists from 50 mainland
new global steps to limit climate media outlets andvolunteers from at
change have done much to raise least 20 non-govemmental organisa-
environmental awareness on the tions have travelled to Copenhagen
mainland. for the two-week summit.
Three-quarters of 20,000 people "It's a great opportunitybecause I
under 35 polled recently agreed am really interested in studying how
China had already suffered from the the climate-related system works
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