US, China to get unique climate change chance at summit: Australia

SYDNEY (AFP) - The world's two biggest polluters, the US and China, will have an unprecedented chance to thrash out action on climate change at an upcoming summit in Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
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US President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao will be among 21 leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Sydney in September, where global warming is expected to be high on the agenda.
"This will be the first and best opportunity for the two largest polluters in the world -- the United States and China -- to come together," Howard told reporters.
"At a lot of these other meetings, the Americans and the Chinese aren't sitting down together, except as part of the enormous concourse of everybody in the United Nations' ambit."
Howard said he expected there would be "a very significant discussion about climate