Couple puts their minds together over climate issues

COPENHAGEN: It was a closed-door meeting Tuesday afternoon in the Berthal Thorvaldsen room in the Bella Center, Copenhagen, where the two-week United Nations conference on how to supplant the Kyoto Protocol is underway.

Sitting at the negotiation table were Lu Xuedu and Li Yu'e. Lu, deputy director of the National Climate Center, and Li, from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, have been colleagues for years. Few, however, would know that they are also partners for life, husband and wife.

Both are deeply engaged in the climate change negotiations this year as part of the Chinese delegation.