The Bali roadmap on tackling climate change and the way ahead yesterday elicited analogies of bus rides.
Su Wei, deputy head of the Chinese delegation to the conference, said: "I am glad that finally we have the US as one of the passengers. Now we can go ahead."
But Christopher Miller, Climate Campaigner from Greenpeace America, said that although the US is a passenger, it is only buying a "developing-country ticket". He urged Washington to shoulder more responsibility.
Su said "China would like to take an active approach and adopt a cooperative attitude to make its contribution for climate protection".
"China is making efforts domestically to cut energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20 percent from 2006 to 2010. Green efforts also need to be made in a verifiable way," he said, in response to the roadmap requirement that developing countries should mitigate climate change in a measurable and verifiable way.
But Chen Dongmei, director of Climate Change and Energy Program of WWF China, said how to ensure verifiability is a challenge for the country.
Source: China Daily
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