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The article reports on the failure of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change summit to devise its "carbon emission" regulation due to China's resistance. The gathering, which was held on December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, aimed to formulate the greenhouse-related rules, focusing on carbon emission of developing countries. China, considered as "top polluter," contended to have a scrutiny of its carbon release. It infers that China's unwillingness elicited disappointment among UN officials.

Information on the United Nations Summit on Climate Change on September 22, 2009 is presented. It features two of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, the U.S. and China, where each country presidents voiced support on a new climate-change treaty. President Hu Jintao of China pledged that they will cut their carbon dioxide intensity by 2020. Moreover, U.S. President Barack Obama reaffirmed their commitment to tackle climate change in the Copenhagen talks in December 2009.