China has made it clear that the nature of national mitigation actions of developing countries - including China - will not be changed.
China makes clear that the autonomous nature of the national mitigation actions of developing countries, including China, will not be changed.
Top UN officials have set positive tones for the climate change conference as it reaches the last three days.
The Songxian county in Central China's Henan province, home to more than half a million people, is on the government's list of impoverished counties. Its annual revenue is not much more than 300 million yuan ($45 million).
China, the most coal-reliant country in the world, will face a few hard decades to raise its clean energy to 50 percent by 2050 but the prospects are good, a senior climate change expert said on Monday.
China hopes that negotiators refrain from saying "no" and work on solutions to settle their differences, said Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese climate change delegation, in his first meeting with the media since he arrived in Cancun on Saturday.
Patagonia – the southernmost portion of South America – and the coastal mountain ranges of Alaska are losing massive glaciers at a faster pace and for longer than glaciers in other parts of the world, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) announced on Tuesday.
China hopes that negotiators try to refrain from saying no and work on solutions to their differences, Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese delegation, said in a press conference.
The Song County in central China's Henan province, home to more than half a million people, is on the government poverty county list. Its annual revenue is not much more than 300 million yuan (US$45 million).
About one and a half months ago, 22 year-old Kevin Osborne, a recent graduate from Seattle University, was in a race against the clock - he was trying to set up an ambitious project called the China-US Climate Exchange for the Cancun climate change summit.
China is intensifying technology cooperation and transfer with other developing countries under the South-South Cooperation to address climate change and ensure sustainable development, a senior technical official said.
More difficulties may arise in the second week of the Cancun climate change negotiations, Martin Khor, executive director of South Center, warned on Saturday.