(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-12-21 20:42

ACTIONS WANTED

Although a roadmap has been made and consensus reached by the parties involved, there are many difficulties to be faced in implementing the roadmap and more actions are desperately needed.

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said, "We now have a roadmap, we have an agenda and we have a deadline."

"But we also have a huge task ahead of us and time to reach agreement is extremely short, so we need to move quickly," he said.

It is 10 years since the Kyoto Protocol on climate change was signed. The protocol set up targets for developed countries in emission cuts, but some of the countries have turned back the clock by expressing their wish to change some contents of the protocol.

The UNFCCC clearly pointed out how developing countries effectively implementing their promises under the U.N. framework would depend on whether developed countries can keep their promises in transferring fund and technology to developing nations, but developed countries have shown a negative attitude toward the issue.

In 2007, China released a national blueprint for tackling climate change, established the Office of the National Leadership Group on Climate Change, and issued a variety of related laws and regulations. It is positively making its contribution in the global fight against climate change.

At the recent conference in Bali, Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of China's National Development and Reform Commission, called for sincere cooperation and joint efforts among all countries in combating climate change under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities."

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