The Chinese government believes that continuation of the Kyoto Protocol and commitment to its second period is a must for a balanced outcome for climate change negotiations.
DARA, a leading humanitarian research organization, and the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a group of committed most vulnerable countries, Friday launched a major new global report on the state of the climate crisis.
The flexibility China and the United States have each exhibited during the climate change negotiations in the past few days demonstrates important progress, said UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres.
Certain ocean organisms, particularly shellfish and corals, are losing their ability to form skeletons as a result of increasing "ocean acidification," a marine environmental problem triggered by accumulating concentrations of dissolved carbon dioxide in the ocean, a new report said.
TCKTCKTCK campaigners urge Japan not to kill the Kyoto Protocol.
China's chief climate change negotiator, two days into the two-week conference, voiced his frustration over Japan's forceful rejection of an extension to the gas restrictions set under the Kyoto Protocol, calling the decision "not a very welcomed position".
Protesters voiced their concerns for the fate of the Kyoto Protocol at the United Nations climate change conference.
The year 2010 has almost certainly been among the top three warmest years since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
There is still no absolute yes or no to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol from the European Union side, said Peter Wittoeck, a Belgian envoy who speaks for the EU, during a press conference at the two-week climate summit in Cancun.
The reluctance of some countries for the second period of the Kyoto Protocol is the biggest stumbling block in the ongoing climate change negotiations, Brazilian Climate Change Ambassador Sergio B. Serra told China Daily on Wednesday.
CANCUN, MEXICO - As negotiations continue at the UN climate change conference, a group of youths from China and the United States have sent a clear and firm message to the delegates: Stop blaming and start trusting each other.
China and the United States face "arduous works ahead" in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a leading Chinese energy expert said.