Beijing works to secure aid for countries

Developing world needs help to offset effects of climate change, official says

Senior Chinese officials in climate negotiations reiterated that the country is developing and vowed that efforts to secure aid to ameliorate the effects of climate change in the developing world will continue.

The comments by the officials came as delegates from around the world were about to finish a key UN negotiation on climate change. They spoke on the sidelines of the ongoing 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Katowice, Poland.