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Bali talks seek to new climate pact, poor at risk
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Bali talks seek to new climate pact, poor at risk
About 190 nations met in Bali yesterday seeking a breakthrough to a new global pact to fight climate change by 2009 to avert droughts, heatwaves and rising seas that will hit the poor hardest. ?The world is watching closely,? Indonesian Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar told delegates at the December 3-14 meeting trying to bind outsiders led by the United States and China into a long-term UN -led fight against warming. ?Climate change is unequivocal and accelerating?, he told an opening ceremony in a luxury beach resort on the Indonesian island. ?It is becoming increasingly evident that the most severe impacts of climate change will be felt by poor nations.?
After a year of intense climate diplomacy and bleak UN reports about the risks of climate change, 10,000 delegates will try to agree to launch negotiations on a broad UN pact by late 2009 to curb greenhouse gas emissions. A new treaty is meant to widen the Kyoto Protocol, which binds 36 industrial countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5 % below 1990 levels by 2008-12. The United States and developing nations have no caps under Kyoto.
Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Secretariat, said the rich had to agree to axe emissions from burning fossil fuels to encourage poor nations to start braking their own rising emissions even as they burn more energy to ease poverty.
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