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For a country that is the world’s second largest emitter of climate change gases and the world’s largest coal burner, China’s move to build a 100-megawatt solar power station in Dunhuang, in northwest Gansu province is not bad at all.

The report followed plans announced by Australia last month to build the world’s biggest solar power station, a 154 megawatt behemoth, which the builder said could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 400,000 tonnes a year.

Australia, like the United States, has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, and the station is part of Australia’s rethink on national environmental policies that are under sharp criticism at home and abroad.

China for its part, which signed the Kyoto accord in 1998, is the world’s second-largest emitter of climate change gases after the United States and the world’s largest coal burner.

via AFP

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