国际英语资讯:Spotlight: UN climate change conference COP25 opens with focus on challenges_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: UN climate change conference COP25 opens with focus on challenges

Kuhn believes that market mechanisms should be well designed to stimulate investment in projects like reforestation and other climate-friendly economic activities. Therefore, COP25 is of great importance to implement the Paris Agreement.

COOPERATION CRUCIAL

The event comes after the United States formally initiated its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement earlier last month, impacting global cooperation on climate change with its unilateral move.

"It will be more difficult for the world to stop climate change by reducing the annual emissions effectively to zero without the United States," said Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

World leaders and experts are using COP25 as a venue for promoting multilateralism. Ursula von der Leyen, the new president of the European Commission, joined the event on Monday, saying that "if we work together, we will go faster and we will be as ambitious as possible in the COP negotiations."

Lu Xinming, deputy director general for climate change with China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment, told reporters on Sunday that China will try hard to conclude negotiations on the details of the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

"One of the most important points is that China opposes any kind of unilateralism and safeguards the authority of multilateralism," said Lu, adding that China will work with other parties to help make the conference a success.