Beijing defends Copenhagen results

China is satisfied with the accomplishments of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and its role in the negotiations, state media reported. While the conference did not deliver a legally binding framework to cut emissions, disappointing many who had hoped that both developed and developing nations would commit themselves to binding, transparent and legally enforceable cuts, Chinese leaders nevertheless are lauding the negotations as having produced "positive results" - including a nonbinding commitment from China to state publicly its emissions cuts every two years and to list its commitments by the end of January, 2010. However, at least one leader in the developing countries is blaming China for the failure of the talks to produce a more binding accord: UK Climate Change Minister Ed Miliband, who said that efforts to enact legally enforceable limits met with "impossible resistance" from developing countries, singling out China in particular as a recalcitrant party.

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