China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations.

Share + Mar 9, 2010 12:06 pm US/Pacific The state's landmark global warming law likely will lead to modest jobs losses in the near future, according to a nonpartisan review that bolsters a growing Republican movement to shelve climate regulations until the economy recovers.

President Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year.

Rich countries including several EU nations are "importing" about a third of their CO2 emissions, says a study. US-based researchers used a global trade database to track goods and services, and assigned emissions to the countries where they were used.

Nearly a quarter of China's emissions come from goods exported to the West. China recently passed the US to become the most highly-emitting country.

But 22.5% of China's emissions are generated during production of goods and services consumed overseas, and 7.8% are embodied in exports to the US alone. However, when countries' emissions are calculated this way, the US is less of an "emissions importer" than some European countries. The study found that Austria, France, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK import about a third of their emissions.

US greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9 percent in 2008 amid a recession and record high petrol prices, according to a preliminary estimate Tuesday from the US Environmental Protection Agency -. Lower demand for electricity and petrol helped drive down energy use over the course of the year in the US, which along with China is the world's largest ...

India has agreed to formally associate itself with the climate accord struck in Copenhagen last year, one of the last major emitters to do so, the environment minister said in a statement on Tuesday.