Once Called a Troublemaker on Climate Issues, China Credited with New Openness

(Beijing and Paris) – China was labeled a "troublemaker" by many other nations at the Copenhagen round of UN climate talk in 2009 when its representatives refused to subject the country's greenhouse gas emission figures to a transparency check known as "measurement, reporting and verification."

Six years later, after China was found to be underestimating its emissions for years, Beijing moved quickly to confirm the report, saying its conclusions were based on revised figures it voluntarily disclosed.