BEIJING: Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday pledged that China, the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases,
would work harder to save energy and clean up the air as it revamps the economy over the next five years.
"We will effectively conserve resources and protect the environment. We will respond actively to climate
change," Wen said in a speech to open the annual session of China's parliament, or National People's
Congress.
The country will seek to reduce carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 17 percent in the
2011-2015 period -- as part of its wider goal to reduce carbon intensity by at least 40 percent by 2020 from
2005 levels.
It will slash energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16 percent by 2015, and hopes to raise the percentage
of non-fossil fuels in its energy mix by 11.4 percent from 8.3 percent last year, the premier said.
