China has a much higher expectation in technology development
and transfer, and very much like to have an effective technology
transfer mechanism under the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC), said a high-ranking Chinese official on
Friday.
China's technology need covers both mitigation and adaptation
technologies as China is a very diversified economy and is now in
the process of industrialization, said Su Wei, director-general of
the Office of National Leading Group on Climate Change under the
National Development and Reform Commission.
Due to the natural endowment of resources and the increasing
demand of productivity for the world market, China has an enormous
task of deploying clean and less-carbon technologies and know-how
for energy efficiency, renewable and nuclear energy, said Su at a
side event for the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference
in Bali.
For capacity building, China's needs mainly include development
of human resources, adaptation, training and education, raising
public awareness, database and information system development, Su
told participants at the side-event called "The United Nations and
China: Connecting Institutions, Technology and Partnerships to
Combat Climate Change".
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.
(Xinhua News Agency December 8, 2007)
