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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam UN climate chief urges quick action as China talks open AFP - Tuesday, October 5 Send IM Story Print UN climate chief urges quick action as China talks open TIANJIN, China (AFP) - – The UN climate change chief on Monday warned feuding countries they must immediately begin working towards a deal to combat global warming, as gridlocked talks resumed in China. The six days of talks in the northern city of Tianjin are part of long-running efforts through the United Nations to secure a post-2012 treaty to limit global warming and avoid potential environmental catastrophes. The event is the first time that China, the world's biggest source of greenhouse gases, which scientists say cause global warming, has hosted a UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting. Little progress has been made since world leaders failed to broker a deal in Copenhagen last year and the delegates were told they had to break the stalemate ahead of another UN climate summit in Mexico starting next month. "Now is the time to rise to your challenge," UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres said in an address at the start of the conference to delegates from more than 170 nations. "Now is the time to accelerate the search for common ground." The final goal of the process is a treaty aimed at curbing greenhouse gases, which could potentially be clinched late next year at a UN summit in South Africa, in time to replace the Kyoto Protocol which expires at the end of 2012. However, after the Copenhagen failure and the continuing battles between developed and developing countries over who should shoulder responsibilities for curbing greenhouse gases, expectations have been lowered. The focus for now is just on trying to broker a package of small deals on specific issues, such as cooperation on clean energy technologies and rewarding developing countries for not cutting down rainforests. But Figueres said devastating floods in Pakistan and China this year, as well as fires in Russia, were a taste of the extreme weather that humans will endure if world leaders do not curb greenhouse emissions soon. "The bottom line is that it is in no one's interest to delay action. Quite the contrary, it is in everyone's interest to accelerate action in order to minimise negative impacts on all," Figueres said. She said finding areas of agreement in Tianjin was vital to restore trust in the UN process and lay the foundations for success in Cancun, Mexico. "A concrete outcome in Cancun is urgently needed to restore the faith in the abilities of parties to take the process forward," she said. The European Union's chief delegate, Artur Runge-Metzger, also warned public trust in the UN process would dissipate completely if there was no progress in Tianjin and Cancun. "If Cancun does not produce such a solid outcome, taking the fight against climate change forward, then I think it risks becoming irrelevant in the eyes of the rest of the world," he told reporters. The phenomenal economic growth of China has seen it overtake the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in recent years, and its efforts to limit emissions were expected to be in focus this week. After being blamed by many in the developed world for derailing the Copenhagen talks, China decided to host the event partly to demonstrate its commitment to the UN process and clean energy, analysts said. China indicated it wanted to foster a spirit of cooperation at this week's conference. "All countries need to renew their efforts to consolidate and expand consensus and hammer out a binding agreement at an early date," Dai Bingguo, China's top foreign policy official, said in a speech to the delegates. However Dai indicated China would hold firm on some of the key disputes with the United States and other developed nations that have led to the current gridlock. He reiterated China's position that developed countries should take the lead in curbing greenhouse gas emissions and help developing countries deal with the impact of climate change. China has long resisted pressure for it to commit to emissions targets, arguing that doing so would hurt its economic development. 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