China signs up for Copenhagen climate accord

OSLO, March 9 | Tue Mar 9, 2010 9:50am EST

OSLO, March 9 (Reuters) - 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 U.N. 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.

(Reporting by Alister Doyle)

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