John Ashton:

The Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, on 8 June announced the
appointment of John Ashton as a Special Representative for Climate
Change. He will support Ministers in delivering a step-change in the
international response to climate change – a new strategic priority for
the FCO.

Mr Ashton will join the FCO in the week beginning 19 June on secondment
from Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G), an independent
not-for-profit organisation that works in the public interest to
accelerate the global transition to sustainable development. He is a
co-founder of E3G and has been its Chief Executive since its inception
in 2004.

Talks bollocks:

Mr Ashton added that the Chinese had put out their first
climate strategy, in an effort "to get to grips with their emissions
and use energy efficiently".

He pointed out that much of China’s emissions growth was
being driven by consumers in the West buying Chinese goods, and noted
that China’s emissions per person were still well below those of rich
nations.

"Much"? Here:

As of July 2006, the Chinese population was 1.3 billion, which
              is more than four times as large as the U.S. population of 298 million.
              In terms of total production, measured in dollars at purchasing
              power parity, the Chinese economy is the world’s second largest
              economy, trailing only the United States. In 2005, the Chinese GDP
              exceeded $8 trillion, which was roughly two-thirds the U.S. GDP.
              (See Figure 2.) Not surprisingly,
              these two countries were two of the three leading exporting and
              importing countries in the world. (7)(See
              Figure 3.)

The most vivid illustration of rapid Chinese growth can be seen
              by examining the Chinese economy on a per capita basis. Adjusted
              for inflation, China’s per capita GDP in 2004 was 6.6 times
              its 1980 level. (See Figure 4.)
              Annual growth rates of real per capita GDP in excess of five percent
              have been the norm in recent years. (See
              Figure 5.) In the late 1970s China’s real GDP per capita
              was slightly less than 5 percent of the U.S. level. Today it exceeds
              10 percent. (See Figure 6.) Thus,
              although the overall Chinese economy is large, China is still a
              country with a relatively low level of per capita income. To provide
              perspective, China’s real per capita GDP today is about equal
              to U.S. per capita GDP in 1886.

…

One manifestation of this fact is that Chinese growth has resulted
              in large effects on overall trade flows. The integration of the
              Chinese economy into the world economy can be seen very clearly
              by examining how Chinese exports and imports have changed since
              the late 1970s. In 1979 Chinese exports as a share of Chinese GDP
              was 5 percent. Since then the share has risen to 36 percent. (See
              Figure 7.) The course of Chinese imports has taken a similar
              path rising from roughly 6 percent of GDP in 1979 to 34 percent
              in 2005. These import and export shares may be compared with the
              shares for the United States: Imports are 16 percent of U.S. GDP
              and exports are 10 percent.

That would be "a minority" then.

"Responsibility for China’s soaring emissions lies not
just in Beijing but also in Washington, Brussels and Tokyo," said
Greenpeace UK director John Sauven.

Err, no, not really. It’s Chinese people climbing out of socialism imposed absolute poverty actually.

We are not all guilty.