BEIJING: China's top climate negotiator has urged wealthy nations to provide more aid to developing countries that stand to suffer the most from climate change.

His remarks were made at the start of the UN climate summit in Egypt, where delegates from nearly 200 countries are getting ready over the next two weeks to discuss topics such as compensating less developed countries for damages caused by global warming. .

Xi Zhenhua, China's special envoy for climate change, said: "I hope this time the conference will meet the demands of developing countries as much as possible. It is being held in Egypt, a developing country.

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He was delivering a speech at a gathering at the China Pavilion during the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday.

Xie expressed the hope that this year's summit will address the needs of developing countries in the areas of emissions reduction, financing, adaptation and capacity building, and make progress in addressing their attribution to climate change-related damages. .

For the first time, the controversial topic of compensation from rich countries to poor countries most vulnerable to climate change is projected to be on a higher level on the agenda of the COP27 summit.

On Sunday, world diplomats agreed to discuss a controversial agenda item "funding arrangements in response to harm and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, including a focus on addressing harm and damage".

According to Egypt's Sameh Shoukri, president of COP27, the agreement "reflects a sense of solidarity and sympathy for the suffering of the victims of climate-induced disasters," he said during the inaugural plenary session on Sunday.

But it is anticipated that this issue will lead to splits. Previous efforts to address the loss and damage have failed, due to the reluctance of wealthy countries to provide funding for low-income countries due to their small share of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Wealthy countries failed to meet their commitment to provide US$100 billion annually by 2020 to assist developing countries in combating climate change. At the 2009 COP15 Biodiversity Conference held in Montreal, Canada, he made a commitment.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that developed countries contributed only $83.3 billion in July.

The European Union and the United States opposed calls for a separate financial mechanism at the COP26 summit in Glasgow a year ago.

Zhao Yingmin, Deputy Minister of Ecology and Environment, and a delegation of more than 50 people from China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, visited Egypt this year.

To reach its peak carbon emissions by the end of this decade and achieve carbon neutrality by the year 2060, Xi said on Sunday that China has "actively implemented" its commitments from the Paris Agreement.

According to him, China's "carbon intensity" last year was 3.8% below 2020 levels and 50.8% lower than in 2005, a measure of the country's emissions as a percentage of GDP.

"We urge all aspects of the global community to adopt green and low-carbon methods of production and living ... and contribute favorably to international efforts to combat climate change," Xie said.

He skipped mentioning whether China would discuss climate cooperation with the US, which is the second largest emitter of carbon in the world. In response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in August, China suspended bilateral discussions on climate issues. This was one of many actions taken.

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John Kerry, the US special presidential envoy for climate change, expressed hope that representatives of the two countries could meet in Sharm el-Sheikh last month.

We have strongly argued that the situation is a multilateral global threat rather than a bilateral relationship. Kerry expressed last month, "I still sincerely hope that we will come together and that China and the United States will have the opportunity to work together on some projects.