China seeking faster action on climate change
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CHINA is calling for faster fulfillment of commitments made for action on climate change before 2020, urging developed countries to revisit and increase their emission cut ambitions.
“All parties should speed up delivery of their pre-2020 commitments in order to build mutual trust as the basis for the post-2020 implementation of the agreement and enhanced actions,” Xie Zhenhua, China’s special representative on climate change affairs, told a United Nations conference in Marrakech yesterday, referring to the historic Paris Agreement.
He also said developed countries must revisit and increase their emission reduction ambitions and deliver on their commitments toward developing countries in the areas of finance, technology and capacity building.
He urged developed countries to honor their commitment to provide US$100 billion a year to developing countries by 2020.
“They should further improve the roadmap on finance, and, using the target of US$100 billion a year as the basis, submit as soon as possible their post-2020 financial contribution and targets,” Xie said.
“Technological innovation will be the key to offset any future gap in emission reduction ambitions,” he said. “Developed countries should speed up the transfer of relevant technologies to developing countries.”
Xie called for an improvement in developing countries’ capacities in early-warning, disaster prevention and reduction, infrastructure, policy management, statistics and accounting, as well as access to finance.
He also said China was seeing notable progress in its low carbon pilots program.
China is exploring new-type urbanization and industrialization development to cope with climate change, and low carbon pilots play a crucial part, Xie told an event on the sidelines of the conference, which ends tomorrow.
China is currently operating pilot projects in 42 cities and provinces, including 1,000 communities, 51 parks and eight towns, he said.
Paul Simons, deputy executive director of the International Energy Agency, hailed China as the leader of low carbon development, saying that cities in emerging and developing economies can lead the low carbon transition globally, while reaping benefits.
He emphasized the importance of urban areas in shaping the global energy future, as they will account for the bulk of energy demand and CO2 emissions.
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