Wen Jiabao: China makes unremitting efforts to cope with climate change

BEIJING, Copenhagen ten mid-spring 18th Power Copenhagen Climate Change conference leaders meeting local time 18th in Denmark. Leaders of more than 100 countries, as well as heads of international organizations such as the United Nations and its specialized agencies, attended the meeting.　　Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao attended the meeting and issued an important speech entitled "Rallying resonance, strengthening cooperation and advancing the process of coping with the history of climate change", and comprehensively expounded the Chinese government's attitude, proposition and measures to deal with the problem of weather change. Wen said that climate change is a major challenge facing the world today.　　It is the common mission of all mankind to curb the warming of the weather and save the Earth, and every country and nation, every enterprise and individual, should act with responsibility. He said that China attaches great importance to the topic of weather change in the process of development, and has made unremitting efforts and positive contributions to cope with the climate change from the fundamental interests of the Chinese people and the long-term development of mankind: the first developing country to implement the National programme on weather change.　　In recent years, a series of laws and regulations have been enacted to treat the rule of law as an important means. China has been the country with the largest energy saving and emission reduction efforts in recent years.　　In the first half of this year, China's GDP consumption was 13% lower than in 2005, equivalent to a small 800 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. China is the fastest growing country for new and renewable energy sources.　　Hydropower installed capacity, nuclear power in the construction scale, solar water heater area and photovoltaic capacity are ranked first in the world. --China is the largest man-made plantation country in the world. We continue to carry out conversion of cropland to forests and afforestation on a large scale.　　At present, artificial afforestation area of 54 million hectares, ranked first in the world. Wen said that China has 1.3 billion people, per capita GDP just over 3,000 U.S. dollars, according to United Nations standards, there are 150 million people living below the poverty line, the task of developing the economy and improving people's livelihood is very difficult. China is in the critical stage of rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, the energy structure is mainly coal, and there are special difficulties in reducing emissions.　　However, we have always taken the response to climate change as an important strategic task. Wen said that from 1990 to 2005, the intensity of China's GDP carbon dioxide emissions decreased by 46%. On this basis, we have also proposed that by 2020 the unit GDP of carbon dioxide emissions than 2005 fell by 40% to 45%. Such a massive reduction in carbon dioxide emissions over such a long period of time will require arduous efforts. Our emission reduction targets will be incorporated into medium-and long-term planning as binding targets to ensure that the implementation of commitments is monitored by law and public opinion.　　We will further improve the domestic statistics, monitoring, assessment methods, improve the disclosure of emission reduction information, increase transparency, and actively carry out international exchanges, dialogue and cooperation. Wen Jiabao exaggerated that to deal with weather changes requires the international community to strengthen confidence, cohesion and positive efforts to enhance cooperation. Must always firmly grasp the following points: first, to maintain the consistency of results. The outcome of this meeting must persist andThe basic principles of the Convention and the Protocol must not be blurred and the mandate to be followed, and not deviate from the "Bali Road map", must be locked and not negated by the resonance already achieved and the progress made in the negotiations. Second, uphold the fairness of the rules. The principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities" is the core and cornerstone of international cooperation in coping with climate change and should always be adhered to. Developed countries must take the lead in drastically quantifying emission reductions and providing financial and technical support to developing countries, which is an inescapable moral responsibility and a legal obligation to fulfil.　　Developing countries should, in accordance with their national circumstances and with the support of financial and technology transfer from developed countries, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to the extent possible and adapt to climate change. Third, pay attention to the fairness of the goal, to deal with the weather changes should focus on the long-term, but also based on the current.　　It is necessary to define a long-term direction of effort and, more importantly, to focus on the completion of near-term and medium-term emission reduction targets, on the fulfilment of commitments already made and on action. Iv. ensure the effectiveness of the mechanism. The international community should make effective institutional arrangements within the framework of the Convention to enable the developed countries to honour their commitments, provide sustained and adequate financial support to developing countries, accelerate the transfer of weather-friendly technologies and effectively assist developing countries, in particular small island States, least developed countries, landlocked countries,　　African countries to strengthen capacity-building to cope with climate change. Wen Jiabao said the Chinese government's goal to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions is that China's autonomous actions in accordance with national conditions are responsible to the Chinese people and the entire human race, without any conditionality or linkage to any country's emissions reduction targets. We must believe and resolute that, whatever the outcome of this Conference, it will unswervingly strive to achieve, or even exceed, this goal.