Xie Zhenhua shakes hands with Geoffrey Kamese, program officer of National Association of Professional from Uganda, one of 16 representatives of international non-government organizations, at the ongoing UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, on Dec 10, 2010.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, called on all participating countries in the Cancun climate talks to “redouble their efforts and use creative ways” to turn out a “successful outcome” for the conference, in a press conference Thursday afternoon.
Confirmation of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol is the focal issue of the Cancun talks, Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese delegation, said in his meeting with representatives of international non-government organizations on the sideline of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun.
Non-governmental organizations from China and the United States agreed on Thursday to deepen their cooperation by establishing long-term exchanges and knowledge sharing on climate change issues.
Wu Changhua, director of an international NGO, made a stir at the Copenhagen climate summit last year when she told a full-house audience of China's mitigation actions at a BBC television live debate with guest speakers.
In the waters off Coco Bongo, a beach in this resort city, models of the Statue of Liberty, the Sydney Opera House and the Eiffel Tower were bobbing up and down.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged a positive outcome as the two-week Cancun summit nears its end.
China is certainly making serious efforts to deal with carbon emissions, US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said Wednesday, adding he has " enormous respect" for what China is doing domestically.
Top UN officials have set positive tones for the climate change conference as it reaches the last three days.
Patagonia, the southernmost part of South America, and the coastal mountain ranges of Alaska are losing their huge glaciers faster and for longer periods of time than those in other parts of the world, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday.
The European Union's proposal to ban industrial carbon credits from 2013 will hurt the interests of developing and developed countries if it comes into effect, said a Chinese official.
China has made it clear that the nature of national mitigation actions of developing countries - including China - will not be changed.
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