Beijing, July 24: United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said here today that China’s support was crucial if a new international climate change deal was to be successfully brokered.
“Without China there can be no success this year on a new global climate framework deal,” Ban said during a speech to launch a programme promoting environmentally friendly lights.
“But with China there is an enormous potential for the world to seal a deal in Copenhagen.”
Ban will oversee a UN summit in the Danish capital in December aimed at hammering out a new climate change pact to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are blamed for global warming.
China and other developing nations are opposed to any compulsory cuts in their emissions, saying the historic responsibility for solving the problem rests with the developed countries that have polluted for so long.
–Agencies