Any future arrangement on climate change should continue to follow the principles of common but differentiated responsibilities established in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the deputy head of Chinese delegation to a UN-led international conference in Bali yesterday.

"Any future arrangement on climate change should continue to follow the principles of common but differentiated responsibilities established in the Convention, addressing climate change within the framework of sustainable development, equal treatment of mitigation and adaptation, and effectively solve the problem of financing and technology which the developing country parties are most concerned," said Su Wei in his statement on the Convention Dialogue.

The future arrangement to address climate change should focus on enhancing implementation of current provisions of the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol, and further strengthen those provisions in accordance to the latest scientific assessments, said Su as participants to the United Nations Climate Change Conference - Bali, 2007 entered into discussions over a climate change deal for the period post-2012.

In order to avoid possible severe adverse impacts of climate change on human society, the Bali conference should immediately start to discuss the issue on how to further strengthen international cooperation on addressing climate change within the framework of UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol.

With regard to the widely-expected "Bali roadmap", Su said: "I think 'the ROAD is under our feet' and 'the MAP is also in our hands'. The UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol is the ROAD, and the Montreal action plan is the MAP. What we need to do at the Bali conference is to combine the 'ROAD under our feet' with the 'MAP in our hands,' which makes the Bali ROADMAP."

The "Bali roadmap" refers to establishing the process to work on the key building blocks of a future climate change regime after the 1997 Kyoto Protocol whose first phase of implementation expires in 2012.

The Convention Dialogue process should continue to focus on sustainable development, adaptation, technology and financing, etc., and achieve positive progress as soon as possible, said Su.

With 192 Parties, the UNFCCC has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.