"I think it's a positive opportunity not just around climate change but the enormous effort we're putting into biodiversity, putting our natural heritage into the conservation state ... there are many things we can be proud of," she said today.
"We're saying that in the 1990s New Zealand accepted commitments under the Kyoto protocol, and we're trying to meet them."
Miss Clark said international measures and deadlines to help deal with global warming were going to be hard to meet.
"I've heard developing countries express views which often amount to saying `the rich world caused this, you solve it'," she said on Radio New Zealand.
"We can't solve it on our own, we have to have developing economies on board.
"The trick is to find a way of doing that without jeopardising their development."
Miss Clark said that would require an enormous amount of technology transfer to ensure developing countries didn't industrialise and modernise the same way as western nations did, because that carried a high cost to the environment.
