Global warming

Flexibility and compromise are essential to paving way for translating the targets and projects made in Copenhagen into specific legally biding treaties against global warming at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Cancun in December.

Next month's Tianjin meeting, the last round of negotiations leading up to the Cancun climate talks, is of great importance to how much the upcoming negotiations in Mexico will be able to achieve. That's why China as the host country is attaching such importance to it and trying to do whatever it can to facilitate the negotiations.

As the biggest developing country, China knows that it must do whatever possible in the fight against global warming. China has promised that it will cut the intensity of its greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP by 40 to 50 percent by 2020. By then, non-fossil power is intended to provide 15 percent of the country's total energy consumption and its forest coverage is to have been increased by 40 million hectares.