Delegates and scientists from around the world opened the biggest-ever climate conference Monday, The 13th United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) beginning in Bali today.
Some 10,000 conferees, activists and journalists from nearly 190 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.
This is a great opportunity for Indonesia to become a world leader in efforts to help break the current deadlock between countries around a solution to global warming and climate change.
The meeting comes after the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. network of scientists issued a landmark report concluding the level of carbon and other heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions must be stabilized by 2015 and decline from there to stave off the worst effects of climate change.
The solutions are within reach, they said, from investing in renewable energy to improving energy efficiency. Without action, temperatures will rise, resulting in droughts, severe weather, dying species and other consequences, they said.
Much of what will happen behind closed doors in Bali will revolve around nuances, with debates over words like “commitment” versus “mandatory.”
At best, analysts believe, Bali could lead to a two-year negotiation in which the United States under a new administration, the Europeans and other industrial nations commit to deepening blanket emissions cuts.
And they say major developing countries could agree to enshrine some national policies — China’s auto emission standards, for example, or energy-efficiency targets for power plants — as international obligations.
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