China formally signed up on Tuesday for the climate accord struck at the Copenhagen summit, the last major emerging economy to endorse a plan strongly favoured by the United States.
An official letter to the Bonn-based UN Climate Change Secretariat said that it could “proceed to include China in the list” of countries supporting the deal reached at the summit in December.
Earlier Tuesday India agreed to formally associate itself with the climate accord.
Full story: China, India join Copenhagen Accord with other major emitters