For any real progress, China has to be involved in the process. Bush provided them with too many excuses for ignoring the problem with his own reluctance to participate in a serious way. China has been making considerable effort recently to invest in new technologies for energy so there's good reason to believe they are serious.
The proposals, delivered by Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, on the first day of the UN general assembly meeting, included the promise of a "notable" decrease in the carbon intensity of China's economy, the amount of emissions for each unit of economic output, by 2020.
"At stake in the fight against climate change are the common interests of the entire world," Hu said. "Out of a sense of responsibility to its own people and people across the world, China fully appreciates the importance and urgency of addressing climate change."
