China and India are choking on their own emissions in their race to catch up with the lifestyles of the developed world. Their argument against cleaning up their emissions has been that smog and greenhouse gases are just the price they pay for admission to the club of the wealthy nations. But that is starting to change.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency and the China Standard Certification Center have agreed to work toward harmonizing information on their respective energy-efficiency labels for consumer electronics and office equipment.

HONG KONG – Turquoise fish with red dots stare at hungry tourists from a tank at a restaurant in Hong Kong, the capital of the world’s live reef fish industry, a lucrative trade devastating reefs across the Pacific Ocean.

Considered a delicacy, demand for coral fish has exploded in line with China’s booming economy and some species such as the humphead wrasse are already endangered.

Chinese computer maker Lenovo has earned the top spot in Greenpeace’s ranking of the eco-friendliness of major electronics companies, ousting previous leader Nokia, the activist group said on Tuesday.

The report, which ranks companies on their policies regarding chemicals and waste, gave the Beijing-based company top marks for its handling of discarded electronic products, known as “e-waste”.

Xiongsen is the world’s biggest battery farm for rare animals. Located just outside the southern Chinese city of Guilin, it is smaller than Regent’s Park but holds 1,300 tigers – almost as many as the whole of India – as well as hundreds of bears, lions and birds. The stock is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in China, where consumers pay high prices for remedies, tonics and aphrodisiacs made from rare species. But until now the park has only been able to bank its assets in cold storage because of a ban on tiger products.

Two factors are crucial to the success of any global system to reduce greenhouse gases. One is American leadership; the other is China’s full participation. Despite President Bush’s diffidence, there has been mounting pressure for the United States to assume a more aggressive role from mayors, governors, some in Congress and, lately, even the Supreme Court. And now there are some modestly encouraging signs from China.

It appears that world’s biggest emitter of CO2 takes the same view of carbon cuts that the Canadian government takes.

The world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases will pursue a policy of jeopardizing economic growth in order to pursue economic growth.

China could overtake the US as the globe’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases later this year, far earlier than expected, one of the world’s leading energy bodies warned today

News Blaze is reporting that the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China wants to invite wind energy companies to take advantage of that area’s abundant wind resources. The region intends to be China’s largest supplier of wind-based energy by 2010. The short time line illustrates how committed the Chinese government is to creating alternative energy sources to reduce that country’s CO2 production.