Dubai, December 01, 2023, The Europe Today: As a major responsible developing country, China stands ready to work with all parties to build a clean and beautiful world, Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang said on Friday.
Ding, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s special representative and a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks when addressing the World Climate Action Summit in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Ding said that eight years ago, Xi worked with leaders of other countries to reach the Paris Agreement with the utmost political determination and wisdom, and embarked on a new journey of global cooperation to address climate change.
China has always kept its promise and made important contributions to global climate governance, said Ding, adding that China has vigorously promoted international cooperation on green development, energy revolution and climate change, and supported developing countries in enhancing their capacity to cope with climate change.
Ding stressed that mankind shares a common destiny in the face of the challenges of climate change, and all parties should strengthen their determination and capacity to jointly address it.
He put forward a three-point proposal.
First, practice multilateralism, adhere to the goals and principles set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, enhance solidarity and cooperation, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
Second, accelerate green transformation, increase the proportion of renewable energy, promote the clean, low-carbon and efficient use of traditional energy, and accelerate the formation of green and low-carbon production methods and lifestyles.
Third, strengthen action implementation and fully honor the existing commitments. In particular, developed countries should effectively increase financial, technological and capacity building support to developing countries to turn vision into reality.
During a meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the summit, Ding said that the ongoing 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), which will see the first-ever global stocktake of the Paris Agreement, is of great significance to the future course of global climate governance.
China is willing to work with the international community, including the United Nations, to resolutely safeguard the basic principles, goals and institutional framework established by the system of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and promote the establishment of a fair, reasonable, cooperative and win-win global climate governance system, said Ding.
