UN urged to lead on tech transfers

China's top official on climate change yesterday called on the international community to build a mechanism for technology development and transfer to help tackle problems associated with global warning.

Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said: "The core of the mechanism must be technology transfer, and it should have sufficient funding to support such transfers."

Xie, who was China's chief negotiator at the United Nations' conference on climate change held last year in Bali, was speaking at a two-day forum on climate change and science and technology innovation that opened yesterday in Beijing.