The “Bali roadmap” Agreed at Bali Climate Talks
Saturday, December 15th 2007
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The “Bali Roadmap” initiates a two-year process of negotiations designed to agree a new set of emissions targets to replace those in the Kyoto Protocol. Those gathering on the resort island of Bali were charged with launching negotiations to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Nations now have two years to craft a legally binding treaty.
UN Sponsored Bali Climate Conference Kicks Off
Tuesday, December 4th 2007
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Government leaders from more than 180 nations started Monday UN sponsored climate conference on fighting global warming, which would decide whether cuts in carbon emissions should be mandatory or voluntary, how to reduce deforestation, how to stop devastating sea level rises, or avoid sending millions further into poverty and lead to the mass extinction of animals, including ways in helping developing countries.
Delegates and scientists from around the world opened the biggest-ever climate conference Monday, aiming to build a new international pact by 2009 to combat global warming — or risk economic and environmental disaster.
Some 10,000 conferees, activists and journalists from more than 180 countries gathered on the resort island of Bali for two weeks of U.N.-led talks that follow a series of scientific reports this year concluding that the world has the technology to slow global warming, but must act immediately.
The Bali meeting will be the first major climate change conference since former Vice President Al Gore — due in Bali next week — and a U.N. scientific council won the Nobel Peace Prize in October for their environmental work, feeding the growing sense of urgency as ice caps melt, oceans rise and extreme weather increases.
US Confirms Attendance to Bali Meeting
Saturday, December 1st 2007
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US government has confirmed attendance to the UN meeting in Bali on Dec. 3-14, amidst world’s pressure for US and other “big polluters” countries to accept binding targets to reduce the pollution linked to global warming, saying it recognized the importance of the meeting that will lead to a new approach on energy security and climate change.