Special Report: Fight against Global Warming
BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and visiting U.N. Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon have agreed after a meeting here Thursday to urge relevant parties in
the U.N. climate conference to set a Bali roadmap toward a more secure climate
future.
The meeting lasted for an hour at Jimbaran
Intercontinental Hotel in Bali, a resort island of Indonesia, on Thursday,
presidential spokesman Dinno Patti Djalal said.
"President Yudhoyono and U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon will
continue to monitor the implementation of the Bali roadmap until it produces a
desirable result," the spokesman said.
He said the president expressed hope that an
agreement on the Bali roadmap could be realized in the next two years to replace
the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012.
The two-week U.N. climate conference, which is due to
end on Friday, was deadlocked as the European Union and the United States
accused each other on Thursday of blocking a deal to launch negotiations on a
new global climate deal before the 1997 Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, which
binds 36 industrialized countries to cut emissions by an average 5 percent below
the 1990 level between 2008 and 2012.
The EU favored a greenhouse gas emission cut target
of 25 to 40 percent for rich countries by the year 2020. But the United States,
Canada, Japan and Australia rejected the cut range.
The U.N. chief was in Bali to attend the U.N. climate
conference, which gathered over 10,000 people from over 180 countries.
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
