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Monday 21 March 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio says China can
be ‘climate change hero’
LOUISE WATT the environmental move- emissions. promote “The Revenant,” Actor Leonardo DiCaprio
Associated Press ment.” “As we all know, the United which won him his first Os- speaks during a news confer-
BEIJING (AP) — Leonardo The actor and environmen- States and China are the car, for best actor, at this ence of the movie “The Rev-
DiCaprio praised China’s talist, who called for action two biggest contributors, year’s ceremony. The mov- enant” at a hotel in Beijing,
work to combat climate to combat climate change and I think that China has ie was released in main- Sunday, March 20, 2016.
change on a trip to Beijing during his Oscar accep- made radical movements land China on Friday and
on Sunday, and said he tance speech last month, forward as far as alterna- has already earned 100 Associated Press
believes the world’s largest praised China’s shift to- tive energy and ways to be million yuan ($15 million) at
emitter of greenhouse gas- ward renewable forms of sustainable,” he said at a the Chinese box office, ac- fectionately called Xiao Li,
es could be “the hero of energy to lower carbon news conference. cording to an announce- or Little Lee, by Chinese.
“I really think that China ment at Sunday’s news China is the world’s largest
can be the hero of the en- conference. coal user and producer,
vironmental movement, DiCaprio, who has made but has also become a
they can be the hero of several trips to China in the leading investor in renew-
the climate change move- past, is one of China’s most able forms of energy, such
ment,” he said. “They have popular Hollywood actors, as solar and wind power.
an opportunity to change mainly because of his per-
the world and I have all the formance in “Titanic,” one
confidence in the world of his few films that have
that that is their intention.” been shown in mainland
DiCaprio was in Beijing to Chinese cinemas. He is af-
