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Lima Climate Change Conference

The United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in Lima, Peru, from December 1 to 14. This was the 20th yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 10th session of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 10) to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Officials, experts and scholars from more than 190 countries and regions, as well as NGO representatives, attended the conference and exchanged their views on dealing with climate change. This conference concluded by elaborating the elements of the new agreement scheduled to be agreed in Paris in 2015, while also agreeing the ground rules on how all countries can submit contributions to the new agreement in 2015. Moreover, this meeting reached the consensus on continuing Durban Platform of negotiation, strengthened the basic political principle of common but differentiated responsibilities under UNFCCC, and clarified how all parties can contribute to coping with climate change after 2020.

Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese delegation and vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, made a speech on behalf of China. He put forward three suggestions: first was to accelerate and make greater efforts to deal with climate change. China hoped Lima Climate Change Conference can review emissions reduction targets of developed countries during the second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol under UNFCCC, and encourage developed countries to increase emissions targets for 2020 to 25%-40% under the Protocol and UNFCCC, and ensure that developed countries honor the commitment to invest 100 billion dollars per year by 2020 and transfer technology to combat climate change, in order to lay the foundation of mutual trust for the new agreement in 2015. Second was to stick to the Convention, and refine the Protocol. To address climate change, all countries should hold firm to principles of UNFCCC which were common but differentiated responsibilities, equality, and respective capabilities. Third was to make more contribution. Developed countries should assume the leadership of reducing emissions by 2020, making investment, and transferring technology. Developing countries should also make greater effort to combat climate change after 2020 with the support from developed countries, while develop in sustainable way.