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(1) Mike will you circulate your response around "friends and allies" please.

Qatar, Greenhouse Gas Titan, Will Host Next U.N. Climate Summit - NYTimes.com

“I congratulate these two countries on their commitment to work together in the lead-up to and during the COP,” said Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat who heads the U.N.F.C.C.C. “Both countries are leaders in their own ways, and can generate strong synergies to put the world on a more climate-safe path.”

The press release does not mention that Qatar, which sits atop vast natural gas deposits, has the highest per-capita greenhouse gas emissions in the world, according to the United Nations Statistics Division. Qatar’s 2007 annual per-capita emissions of 55 tons were nearly three times those of the United States.

Chinese Solar Makers Seen Shrinking to 15 on Supply Glut - Bloomberg

“There’ll be no more than 15 large manufactures left in five years,” Li said by phone, without identifying them. There
were 330 panel makers in China in 2008, according to the Chinese Renewable Energy Society, which said it stopped counting as it
couldn’t keep up with the “multifold” increase since then.