Help offered to combat climate change

China is participating in South-South cooperation voluntarily as part of its effort to address climate change, not out of historical responsibility or the obligations of international treaties, said a senior official of an international organization for the developing world.

Developed countries have far more responsibility to lead and provide the money and technology needed for developing countries, said Meenakshi Raman, coordinator of the climate change program of the Third World Network. Raman spoke on the sidelines of the ongoing 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP 24, in Katowice, Poland.

"China is playing a leadership role ... in a world where you have the largest per capita carbon emitter, the United States, walking out of the Paris agreement," she said on Wednesday.