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Chinese delegate elaborates on tasks for dealing with climate change
4/12/2007 10:11

Chinese delegate Su Wei to the UN climate change conference, which is opened in Bali yesterday, said the tasks of adaptation is especially urgent for developing countries who are most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.

The future arrangement should focus specifically on strengthening adaptation, so as to improve the adaptation capabilities of developing countries, Su said.

Su said the future arrangement to address climate change should focus on enhancing implementation of current provisions of the Convention and its Kyodo Protocol, and further strengthen those provisions in accordance to the latest scientific assessments.

He said developed countries should at least reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent to 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. For developing countries, they should make commitments to take policies and measures to address climate change to contribute more, and the developed countries should provide them financial resources, technology transfer and capacity building in this regard.

He also called for establishing a technology cooperation mechanism to remove barriers and provide incentives to technology transfer, and to provide incentives for technology cooperation and transfer, to enhance the developing countries' adaptation capacity.

Meanwhile, he said, adequate and predictable funds must be secured for developing countries to address climate change, so as to support their mitigation, adaptation, technology transfer, reducing deforestation, economic diversification and scientific research activities.



Xinhua