China expects the Durban ministerial-level meeting, scheduled from Nov. 28 to Dec. 9, will solidly advance the negotiating process in both working groups, one under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the other the Kyoto Protocol, Su said.
The core issue in Durban is to continue to put into practice the Bali roadmap, which was agreed by all parties in late 2007 and sketched out main schedule for climate talks afterwards, Su said.
To be more specific, in Durban, developed countries should make progress on extending the Kyoto Protocol and setting new emission cuts targets, and those rich nations refusing Kyoto have to make "comparable commitments" under the Convention.
"Long-term climate funding will be another focus in Durban," he said. "Until now, there are no concrete financial aid promises from developed countries beyond 2013. The political will of those countries for long-term funding is not enough."
In the 2009 Copenhagen summit, developed countries pledged to offer 30 billion dollars of "fast start" aid from 2010 to 2012, aiming at helping poor nations combat climate change and obtain clean-energy technology. Read the full report here.
Source: by Xinhua writers Han Mo, Liu Xiang, English.news.cn, Bonn, Germany.
