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NAME: CHN BEAR 051105N TAPE: EF05/0981 IN_TIME: 10:34:21:15 DURATION: 00:01:37:17 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Beijing - 5 Nov 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1 Wide shot of polar bear sculpture with children and pedestrians around 2 Children, pan to artist working on sculpture 3 Close-up of artist making sculpture 4 Girl on father's shoulder watching the activities 5 Children playing with hand held windmills 6 Close up turning windmill with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) logo 7 Children playing, pan to sculpture 8 Chinese Climate and Energy Programme Director Gan Lin talking with volunteers 9 SOUNDBITE (English) Gan Lin, Chinese Climate and Energy Programme Director: I think the first thing is we want to mobilise public support, to get people aware of the impact of using fossil fuels energy, production and use, and to switch to clean power, particularly renewable energies 10 Passers-by reading promotional material 11 Volunteer talking 12 SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Vox Pop, Gao, Beijing resident: If we can change people's ideas of this (global warming), people's action can be changed This is really good for the drive 13 Close-up of melting polar bear sculpture 14 Zoom out from sculpture to wide shot of street scene STORYLINE Environmental volunteers in China tried to raise people's awareness of global warming on Saturday by displaying an ice sculpture of a polar bear in downtown Beijing The melting ice sculpture signalled the start of a campaign to raise public knowledge and awareness in China to the dangers of the increased pace of global warming and the threat of animal species extinctions The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) staged the symbolic meltdown to draw attention to a conference on renewable energy to be held in the Chinese capital next week, where environment officials from 40 countries will promote solar energy, wind power and bio-fuel development Non-governmental groups (NGOs) took measures to alert the Chinese public to damage caused by rising world temperatures due to fossil fuel pollution Gan Lin, director of the Chinese Climate and Energy Programme, said public awareness is the first crucial step in making fundamental changes to energy production We want to mobilise public support, to get people aware of the impact of using fossil fuels energy, production and use, and to switch to clean power, particularly renewable energies, Gan said The WWF says public education, government policy and private enterprise need to focus on the consequences of climate change and the promise of renewable energy The two-day Beijing International Renewable Energy Conference which begins on Monday will review vows to develop renewable energies made by governments, businesses and organisations 18 months ago at the first such conference in Bonn, Germany in June 2004 China is struggling to meet a huge and growing demand for energy to fuel its surging economy Switching the world's energy sources to renewable energies is a key strategy in combating climate change which is due to burning fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas China is investing massively in coal-fired power stations By 2025, more than half of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases will be coming from developing countries KEYWORD - WACKY