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15:50, August 02, 2007 |
China has become an active contributor to the international efforts to address the climate change, which is posing serious threats to mankind, world environment body UNEP chief Achim Steiner has said.
"What is interesting and also encouraging is that in the last few years China has become much more active in international discussions and the search for solutions (to climate change) as a proactive player, as a contributor of ideas and in putting forward proposals," he told Xinhua in an exclusive interview.
"In the past three to five years, China has become very active in looking at the whole issue of greenhouse gas emissions, the impact of climate change and the contribution that China will make to global warming," the executive director of UNEP said. "This is something the international community and the UN welcome very much. "
Steiner said China''s release of the National Climate Change Program in June has sent a tremendous signal that China is both willing and interested in playing an active role in international consensus on how to respond to climate change, expressing the hope that the targets set in the program will be achieved.
"As a responsible developing country, China attaches great importance to the issue of climate change... As it is mandated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Government of China hereby formulates China''s National Climate Change Program (CNCCP), outlining objectives, basic principles, key areas of actions, as well as policies and measures to address climate change for the period up to 2010," said the program in its foreword.
China has pledged to sincerely carry out all the tasks in the CNCCP, striving to build a resource conservative and environmentally friendly society, enhance national capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and make further contribution to the protection of the global climate system.
The targets set in the program include an estimated 20 percent cut of energy consumption per unit GDP by 2010 and raising the proportion of renewable energy, including large-scale hydropower, in primary energy supply up to 10 percent by 2010.
"These are very important steps," said Steiner, highlighting greater afforestation programs in China for carbon sinks and the restoration of grasslands as measures that are significant to the global climate change challenge.
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