(BEIJING, December 5) -- Beijing's strategy to hold a "green" edition of the Olympic Games sets a good example for the many countries around the world, the United Nations' top climate change official said on Wednesday.

While attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told Xinhua News Agency that Beijing's efforts to make the 2008 Olympic Games environmentally-friendly will also have a positive influence outside of China. He said that if China can successfully implement an urban sustainable development strategy, then many countries could follow her lead.

He deemed that staging the "Green Olympics" is not only an action in Beijing's favor, but it can also push forward the sustainable development of other cities in China and thus bring a new, positive change to the world.

The 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference opened on December 3 and will end on December 14, with representatives of over 180 countries and observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations as well as the media. According to the agenda, the two-week period includes sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and its subsidiary bodies as well as the Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol, which was adopted at the third Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Kyoto, Japan, on December 11, 1997.