Bali conference needs to produce breakthrough on climate change
Bali climate conference must produce a roadmap for a future climate deal.
Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, says the Bali climate conference must produce a roadmap for a future climate deal to save the planet from the devastating effects of global warming.
The two week conference begins on 3 December and is the culmination of 12 months in the climate debate. Around 10,000 delegates are expected to attend, including 130 Environment Ministers.
With the Kyoto Protocol due to expire in 2012, hopes are for the Bali conference to deliver a roadmap for a new international agreement on enhanced global action to fight climate change.
A fully negotiated and agreed climate deal, however, will not be delivered at the conference.
Instead, it is hoped that the beginnings, the necessary wheels will be set in motion to ensure negotiations can conclude in 2009 to avoid a gap after the end of the Kyoto Protocol's first phase in 2012.Among the areas a new deal is expected to cover are mitigation, adaptation, technology and financing.
Industrialised countries will be expected to take the lead in emission reductions and incentives for developing countries offered to encourage the implementation of clean technologies.
