ABSTRACT
Climate change is a controversial topic worldwide today and any international regime, and its corresponding actions, will have a lasting and profound influence on the world economy and international politics. At its thirteenth session, held in Bali, Indonesia, at the end of 2007, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Bali Action Plan (UNFCCC, 2007). This plan initiated a new process of negotiations on long-term cooperative actions under the Convention 2 with the goal of reaching international agreements on an international climate regime beyond 2012 at the fifteenth session of the Conference, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the end of 2009. The key factors in the present international climate negotiations are a shared vision of global long-term cooperative actions, mitigation, adaptation, technology, and finance. 3 The key point of contention remains how to reach an agreement for equitable burden-sharing regarding obligations for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or allocation of emission entitlements in accordance with the concrete conditions of various countries, and how to ensure the implementation of such an agreement under an appropriate international regime. As the largest developing country in the world, China plays an important role in international climate negotiations and is under increasing international pressure.
