UN climate change conference opens in Doha
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Su Wei, deputy chief of the Chinese delegation to the Doha conference, attends the opening ceremony of the UN climate change conference in Doha, capital of Qatar, on Nov. 26, 2012. [Xinhua] |
The UN climate chief also said the talks here will work out detailed arrangement of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, a legally binding accord requiring industrialized countries to cut their carbon emissions.
She also called for the participants' attention to the financial and technical support the developing countries are in urgent need of to bolster their anti-warming efforts, expressing hope that improvement can be done in this area in Doha.
Days before the conference's opening, Figueres said in Bonn of Germany, where the office of the UNFCCC is headquartered, that the Doha conference must deliver its objectives to speed up global action towards a low-emission future where everyone has the chance of a sustainable life.
The Doha conference will run until Dec. 7. Among its priorities, ensuring the seamless continuation of the Kyoto Protocol as scheduled (Jan. 1, 2013), planing the work under the Durban Platform (a new negotiating mechanism), and charting the way forward on long-term climate finance are high on its agenda.
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