Campaigners from Greenpeace immerse models of iconic global structures in the sea off Cancun to illustrate the threats of climate change to the whole world on Dec 8.
Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, and head of the Chinese climate change delegation, met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Dec 8 at the venue of the Cancun climate change conference in Mexico.
China makes clear that the autonomous nature of the national mitigation actions of developing countries, including China, will not be changed.
Top UN officials have set positive tones for the climate change conference as it reaches the last three days.
The Songxian county in Central China's Henan province, home to more than half a million people, is on the government's list of impoverished counties. Its annual revenue is not much more than 300 million yuan ($45 million).
China, the most coal-reliant country in the world, will face a few hard decades to raise its clean energy to 50 percent by 2050 but the prospects are good, a senior climate change expert said on Monday.
China hopes that negotiators refrain from saying "no" and work on solutions to settle their differences, said Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese climate change delegation, in his first meeting with the media since he arrived in Cancun on Saturday.
Patagonia – the southernmost portion of South America – and the coastal mountain ranges of Alaska are losing massive glaciers at a faster pace and for longer than glaciers in other parts of the world, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) announced on Tuesday.
China is responding to climate change on numerous fronts, including improving its energy efficiency and adopting a "low carbon" energy strategy, Chinese environment experts said in Cancun Monday.
The United States is betting on that technological innovation will be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the nation's secretary of energy said here Monday in a speech, where he did not specify targets for the nation.
About one and a half months ago, 22 year-old Kevin Osborne, a recent graduate from Seattle University, was in a race against the clock - he was trying to set up an ambitious project called the China-US Climate Exchange for the Cancun climate change summit.
China is intensifying technology cooperation and transfer with other developing countries under the South-South Cooperation to address climate change and ensure sustainable development, a senior technical official said.