News Article Greenhouse emission cuts 'in China's own interests' London. The other half is to fulfil our obligations to countries like the United States, even if this is at the cost of giving up the benefits of global warming to China. This should be the basis of China's policy of reducing carbon dioxide emissions and participating in international negotiations. The volumes have been published over the past five years by 150 researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other agencies.
Chinese scientists recognize global warming has benefits as well as costs.
The authors point out that China has experienced global warming before. Although a warmer, wetter climate would benefit agriculture in some parts of China, the authors recognize that increased greenhouse emissions would deplete the country's fossil-fuel base, as well as threatening coastal states. But their reports also emphasize that for China, development has traditionally taken priority over environmental protection. This was also effectively the message contained in a speech last month in Beijing by Song Jian, a scientist who is also leader of the environment group in China's ruling State Council. He hinted that China favoured reducing greenhouse-gas emissions on a per capita basis.