CHINA acknowledged yesterday it is the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, as it called on the United States to ensure climate change talks make progress.

“THE city of Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport,” said John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, on Friday night.

The head of China’s environmental protection administration has resigned, the official Xinhua News Agency said today, following a chemical spill that has polluted a major river and embarrassed President Hu Jintao’s government.

AS negotiators finished a global plan to tackle poverty and save the environment, Russia said yesterday it will soon ratify the Kyoto Protocol a move that would bring the key climate change agreement into effect.