China and the United States should cooperate with each other to fulfill their roles in slowing down global warming while pushing forward the upcoming climate change negotiations, which kicked off on Monday in Cancun, Mexico, a United Nations official said.
Climate change negotiation is an urgent issue cannot wait too much bargaining and all sides should make their utmost efforts to ensure progress of the Cancun meeting, China's top climate change negotiator Su Wei told China Daily Tuesday after the Opening Ceremony of the United Nation's Climate Change Meeting in Cancun.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-16) opened in Cancun, a resort city of Mexico on Monday. The talks, from Nov 29 to Dec 10, are held to continue to search solutions to the climate problem.
Moderate flexibility needed for climate talks
Sincerity is all the more needed to make substantial achievements at Cancun, despite mounting difficulty to reach a legally-binding treaty.
By 2050, there would well be more than 9 billion people on Earth. To accommodate this jump in population we have no choice but to complete the transition to a low-carbon global economy.
The mounting challenges that the climate negotiators face have understandably precluded high expectations of the UN climate change conference that started on Monday in Cancun, Mexico.
A leading British campaigner on climate change has urged the international community to be pragmatic and accept different manners to address the challenge, as Western ways "don't fit" China's situation.
When negotiators start their climate talks in Cancun, Mexico this week, they should remember that climate change goes beyond political trade-offs, the carbon market and the profit making of green business opportunities.
Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one day be joined by Canadian bison and deer.
The long journey to counter climate change is arriving at an important station when the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-16) starts in Mexico's resort city of Cancun on Nov 29.
The key to success at the upcoming Cancun climate change conference rests with the United States and other developed countries.
China attached great importance to the climate change issue and the upcoming UN climate change conference (COP 16) in Cancun, for which China believed dual-track negotiations were crucial, a Chinese diplomat said Friday.