Christiana Figueres, the United Nations climate chief, yesterday accepts the gift of a Chinese seal bearing Chinese characters for "Unity is strength" from two Chinese youth representatives at a global climateconference in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin. With a single climatepackage deal unlikely at the last conference before December's Cancun talks, the focus of the conference will be on finding areas of agreement on essential components, including financing and transfer of clean technology and ways of reducing deforestation. Figueres yesterday urged countries to identify achievable goals for fighting climate change.

The United Nations' climate chief yesterday urged countries to identify achievable goals for fighting climate change ahead of a meeting in Mexico, after last year's Copenhagen summit failed to produce binding limits on greenhouse gas.

Christiana Figueres told 3,000 delegates at the start of a six-day conference in Tianjin, north China - the last conference before Cancun - that they must "accelerate the search for common ground" ahead of the December talks to make progress toward securing a global climate change treaty.

"As governments, you can continue to stand still or move forward. Now is the time to make that choice," she said.

Last year's UN climatesummit in Copenhagen disappointed many environmentalists and political leaders when it failed to produce a global and legallybinding treaty on curbing greenhouse gases. Instead, nations agreed to a nonbinding political declaration on fighting climate change.

This year, distrust has only deepened between developed and developing countries over how to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the earth to overheat.

As host, China will seek to reduce those differences, said State Counselor Dai Bingguo, who urged countries to renew efforts in order to "hammer out a bindingagreement at an early date."

Dai said developing countries' right to development must be guaranteed to achievepositive progress in tackling climate change.

As a developing country experiencing rapid growth, China will continue to fulfill its due responsibilities in reducing greenhouse gases emissions, he said. Last year, China pledged it would cut its carbonintensity - emissions per unit of GDP - by 40 to 45 percent by 2020 from the 2005 level. Nationwide efforts have also been made to reach the goal of improving energyefficiency by 20 percent from 2005 to 2010.

"They're serious and they chose something that's not easy," Figueres said. "China has redoubled domestic efforts since Copenhagen. I don't think anyone can doubt that."

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• yesterday [´jestədi] n.&ad.昨天；前不久 (初中英语单词)
• conference [´kɔnfərəns] n.讨论(会)；会谈 (初中英语单词)
• package [´pækidʒ] n.包(裹) vt.组装 (初中英语单词)
• agreement [ə´gri:mənt] n.同意；一致；协议 (初中英语单词)
• essential [i´senʃəl] a.必需的 n.要素，要点 (初中英语单词)
• transfer [træns´fə:] v.&n.迁移；调动；转让 (初中英语单词)
• identify [ai´dentifai] vt.认出；鉴定；验明 (初中英语单词)
• mexico [´meksikəu] n.墨西哥 (初中英语单词)
• achieve [ə´tʃi:v] vt.完成；达到；获得 (初中英语单词)
• carbon [´kɑ:bən] n.碳；(一张)复写纸 (初中英语单词)
• energy [´enədʒi] n.活力，精力；能力 (初中英语单词)
• domestic [də´mestik] a.家庭的；本国的 (初中英语单词)
• bearing [´beəriŋ] n.举止；忍耐；关系 (高中英语单词)
• finding [´faindiŋ] n.发现物；判断；结果 (高中英语单词)
• summit [´sʌmit] n.顶(点)；绝顶 (高中英语单词)
• declaration [,deklə´reiʃən] n.宣布；宣言；申报 (高中英语单词)
• distrust [dis´trʌst] n.&vt.不信任，怀疑 (高中英语单词)
• positive [´pɔzətiv] a.确定的 (高中英语单词)
• intensity [in´tensiti] a.激烈；强度；深度 (高中英语单词)
• efficiency [i´fiʃənsi] n.效力；效率；有能力 (高中英语单词)
• binding [´baindiŋ] a.捆绑的 n.捆绑(物) (英语四级单词)
• counselor [´kaunsələ] n.顾问；参赞；律师 (英语四级单词)
• unlikely [ʌn´laikli] a.不像的；未必可能的 (英语六级单词)
• greenhouse [´gri:nhaus] n.温室，玻璃暖房 (英语六级单词)
• legally [´li:gəli] ad.合法地 (英语六级单词)