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BONN, Nov. 7-- The ongoing 23rd Conference of Parties (COP 23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has garnered worldwide attention as it is crucial to the implementation of the Paris Agreement which will direct the global efforts in climate protection beyond 2020. During the conference which kicked off on Monday and will last until Nov. 17, China's stance and Fijian presidency, among various highlights, merit additional attention. CRUCIAL TIME At a press conference of the Chinese delegation held in Bonn on Monday, Lu Xinming, a negotiator from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said the Bonn meeting comes at a crucial time both for defining implementation guidelines of the Paris Agreement and also for battling the climate change across the globe. As negotiations on detailed implementation plans of the Paris Agreement are expected to conclude on the COP 24 in 2018, talks at the Bonn meeting will lay crucial building blocks for the final reaching of consensus. Lu said that the Bonn meeting is also an occasion for reality check of progresses in climate promises and actions. The global fight against climate change, starting from 1992 with the inception of the UNFCCC, can be divided into pre-2020 phase and years after that, therefore, the international community needs to take stock of pre-2020 climate progresses in Bonn. The good news is that common understanding has been achieved such as that the climate change is taking place and it poses a threat that no country can solve single-handedly, said Gou Haibo, another Chinese negotiator from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. | 
