国内英语新闻:China calls for expedited fulfillment of climate commitments

MARRAKECH, Morocco, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday called for faster fulfillment of commitments already made for climate actions before 2020, urging developed countries to revisit and increase their emission cut ambitions.

"All parties should speed up the delivery of their pre-2020 commitments in order to build mutual trust as the basis for the post-2020 implementation of the Agreement and enhanced actions," Xie Zhenhua, China's special representative on climate change affairs, told a United Nations conference, referring to the historic Paris Agreement.

"Parties concerned must accelerate the ratification of the Doha Amendment on the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol," Xie said.

"The developed countries must revisit and increase their emission reduction ambitions under the Convention or in the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol," the envoy said.

He was referring to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

"They must deliver on their commitments towards the developing countries in the areas of finance, technology and capacity building," Xie said.

Xie expressed the hope that the Facilitative Dialogue on the pre-2020 actions can achieve substantive outcomes which will provide pragmatic and effective solutions to the pre-2020 enhanced actions on emission reduction, adaptation, finance, and technology.

He urged the developed countries to truly honor the commitment of providing 100 billion U.S. dollars per year to developing countries by 2020.

"They should further improve the roadmap on finance, and using the target of 100 billion U.S. dollars a year as the basis, submit as soon as possible their post-2020 financial contribution and targets," Xie said.

"Technological innovation will be the key to offset any future gap in the emission reduction ambitions," he said. "The developed countries should speed up the transfer of relevant technologies to the developing countries."

Xie called for a "package outcome" on capacity building aimed at improving the developing countries' capacities in the areas of early-warning, disaster prevention and reduction, infrastructure, policy management, statistics and accounting, and access to finance.