Work together to keep Earth green and safe

The debate on United Nations climate change conference will continue, even though the 194 countries managed to come up with the Durban Platform. After the drama and confusion in the South African city, Tian Wei, moderator and anchor of CCTV News who also serves as special advisor to the UN Development Programme (UNDP) China, interviewed UNDP Administrator Helen Clark.

Q: Are you satisfied with the outcome of the Durban conference? What do you think was the biggest challenge the conference handled in the two weeks?

A: In Durban, governments faced the extremely difficult question of coming to a unified agreement on how to create a new global regime to address climate change. The conference could not have had a timelier task - a recent report by the Global Carbon Project stated that carbon dioxide emissions reached record levels in 2010. The outcome of the conference, also known as the Durban Platform, represents a package of decisions Taken together, these decisions represent important progress in the UN's work on climate change, and the (UN) secretary-general has called on the parties to quickly implement these decisions and to continue working together.