Special Report: Fight against Global Warming
BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.N. top climate
official said here on Thursday that the ongoing U.N. Bali climate talks could
collapse unless the delegates to the conference solve their disputes which are
blocking the launch of negotiations on a new global climate deal.
"We are in an all-or-nothing situation in that if we
don't manage to get the work done on the future (terms for negotiations) then
the whole house of cards basically falls to pieces," Yvo de Boer, head of the
U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told a news conference, one day ahead of the
conclusion of the two-week meeting.
"I'm very concerned about the pace of things," he
said.
The Bali talks are deadlocked over terms for
launching two years of negotiations on a new climate deal before the current
phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
The protocol binds 36 industrial nations to cut
emissions of greenhouse gases until 2012. So far, the United States, Japan,
Canada and Australia are resisting efforts to include a guideline for rich
nations to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by 25 to 40 percent below 1990
levels by 2020.
The European Union, which favors the range to show
that the rich countries will lead the way, accused Washington of being the main
obstacle in Bali.
The two-week U.N. climate meeting, which gathered
over 10,000 delegates from over 180 countries as well as observers from
intergovernmental and nongovernmental organization, will conclude on Friday.
U.N. bodies take lead in carbon neural
by offsetting emissions
BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 ( Xinhua) -- U.N. bodies
attending a crucial climate convention meeting in Bali, Indonesia, Thursday
announced that they are offsetting their greenhouse gas emissions linked with
travel to and from the two-week event. Full story
WWF calls for breaking deadlock at
Bali climate meeting
BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Hans Verolme,
Director of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)'s Global Climate Change
Program, on Thursday called on ministers attending the ongoing U.N. climate
conference in Bali, Indonesia, to break the deadlock and secure a "Bali Mandate
the world is crying out for." Full story
