BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- China is committed to strengthening
ability and capacity to fight climate change and to making new contribution to
protecting the global climate, said a Chinese official here on Friday.
China has set very ambitious domestic goals to combat climate change and is
taking a series of practical and proactive actions including setting up
regulatory, legal, financial, and economic instruments, said Su Wei,
director-general of the Office of National Leading Group on Climate Change under
the National Development and Reform Commission.
China is committed to controlling green house gas (GHG) emissions by 2010
and endeavors are to be made to achieve such goals as reducing energy
consumption per unit GDP by 20 percent; increasing the share of renewable energy
to 10 percent; stabilizing nitrous oxide emissions from industrial processes at
2005 level; controlling the growth of methane emissions; increasing the forest
coverage rate to 20 percent and increasing carbon sink by 50 million tons over
2005 level, Su said at a side event for the ongoing United Nations Climate
Change Conference in Bali.
China is closing down those backward energy intensive plants and replacing
them with advanced ones. China is also implementing the 10 priority energy
conservation programs targeting at more than 1,000 key energy intensive
enterprise, Su told participants at the side-event "The United Nations and
China: Connecting Institutions, Technology and Partnerships to Combat Climate
Change".
For adaptation to climate change, China is trying hard to enhance capacity
for disaster prevention, warning and mitigation. Efforts are also being made to
improve the adaptation capacity in the agriculture, water resources, ecosystems,
health, tourism, andother sectors. The formulation of national adaptation
strategy is well underway.
Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) and U.N. Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in China
Khalid Malik also delivered speech at the event.
