Global General

Developed countries urged to cut emissions

By Dong Wei (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-10-05 14:04

TIANJIN – China said greenhouse gases emission cut is an unavoidable topic at the year-end climate change meeting in Cancun, urging developed countries to take more ambitious actions to combat global warming.

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Su Wei, the country's chief climate negotiator, made the remarks at a press conference in the United Nations Climate Change meeting in Tianjin.

He pointed out developed countries, accountable for the global warming during their industrialization process, are supposed to be "more active" in limiting their emissions.

"They also need to share some pressures for developing countries, which struggled to eliminate the poverty and improve people's livelihood."

He said emission cut is undoubtedly a key topic of the incoming Cancun summit, even though expectations on a new treaty have been scaled down. Negotiators from the world need to make painstaking efforts to find out what will follow the first commitment period of Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.