DiCaprio lauds China

BEIJING — Leonardo DiCaprio has praised China’s work to combat climate change and said he believes the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases could be “the hero of the environmental movement.”

On a trip to Beijing Sunday to promote The Revenant, the actor and environmentalist praised China’s shift toward renewable forms of energy to lower carbon emissions.

“As we all know, the United States and China are the two biggest contributors, and I think that China has made radical movements forward as far as alternative energy and ways to be sustainable,” he said.

“I really think that China can be the hero of the environmental movement, they can be the hero of the climate change movement.”