Smoke emitting from chimneys at a coal mine in Huo Lin Guo Le, China’s north Inner Mongolia region. China appeared over the weekend to soften its stance on a sticking point in UN climate change negotiations, the issue of verifying developing countries’ emissions reductions. Beijing does not “believe that increasing transparency will be a problem” at global talks opening this week in Mexico, said Huang Huikang, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s representative at the talks.