UN Climate Change Conference- Bali 2007 Optimistic Views on the Opening

Nusa Dua, 3 December 2007.

Optimistic feeling is shared during the opening of the thirteenth Conference on Climate Change in Bali International Convention Center, Westin Hotel, Nusa Dua, Bali, according to Emil Salim, Head of Delegation of the Republic of Indonesia. Several positive points includes: Australia’s commitment to sign the Kyoto Protocol, concrete talks regarding adaptation funds mechanism, and EU’s commitment to reduce their carbon emission below the 1990 level at the year 2020.
The positive signs made Emil Salim very optimistic that there will be a new framework being produced in Bali for the post-2012 agreement.

Secretary of UNFCCC Yvo de Boer opens the United Nations Climate Change Conference on December 3, 2007, in Bali Indonesia.

The next two-week meetings will produce report regarding dialogues on Long-term Action Plans for Climate Change through the Convention Implementation.

The opening, held on Plenary Hall, had gathered 1172 representatives from 180 countries. The Indonesian Minister of Environment, Rachmat Witoelar was elected as the President of COP-13, succeeding the previous COP President, David Mwiraria from Kenya.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference opened on December 3, 2007, in Bali Indonesia . Rachmat Witular, Minister of Environment as the President of COP 13 shook hand with the President of COP12 David Mwiraria

According to Emil Salim, this Bali meeting will lay foundations on talks and negotiations to formulate post Kyoto Protocol framework, which will be continued in Poland at 2008 and end in Denmark at 2009.

Oxfam's Polar Bears protested in support of humans who are also losing their habitat and natural resources due to Climate Change at the UN Climate Change Conference on Thursday 6 December, 2007. Photo: Ng Swan Ti

The most dramatic moment from the first meeting session is Australia Delegation’s statement to ratify Kyoto Protocol as soon as possible, which will legitimize their position as member of the Parties and can officially negotiate for the next sessions. Two years after Prime Minister John Howard refuse to sign the Kyoto Protocol in 2005, Australia’s change of position will make United States of America as the only major carbon-emitting industrialized country who refuse to be a part of the Protocol Kyoto.

In this conference, all parties will discuss the next steps on handling climate change through action mechanism for post-2012. Since years of lobbies and negotiations were more focusing on mitigation effort, the Bali conference will hopefully give adaptation mechanism higher priority on the agenda.

Emil Salim wished this Bali meeting can reach agreement on several practical steps in assisting developing countries to develop their own adaptation strategies. Such example includes Indonesia’s effort to reduce emission from deforestation (which contributes 20% of the total greenhouse gas emission in the world), and attention to adaptation capacity building for small-island States. Hopefully, Bali can facilitate all concrete agreement on capacity building in developing countries

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Delegates rise to applaud the decision to adopt the "Bali roadmap" for a future international agreement on climate change

The Conference, hosted by the Government of Indonesia, took place at the Bali International Convention Centre and brought together more than 10,000 participants, including representatives of over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and the media. The two week period included the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, its subsidiary bodies as well as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. A ministerial segment in the second week concluded the Conference.

The conference culminated in the adoption of the Bali Road Map, which consists of a number of forward-looking decisions that represent the various tracks that are essential to reaching a secure climate future. The Bali Road Map includes the Bali Action Plan, which charts the course for a new negotiating process designed to tackle climate change, with the aim of completing this by 2009. It also includes the AWG-KP negotiations and their 2009 deadline, the launch of the Adaptation Fund, the scope and content of the Article 9 review of the Kyoto Protocol, as well as decisions on technology transfer and on reducing emissions from deforestation (see the President's closing remarks below).

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The Bali Communiqué - UN Climate Change Conference 2007

This communiqué comes from the business leaders of over 150 global companies. It is being issued in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2007, taking place from December 3 to 14 in Bali, Indonesia.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming. Climate change presents very serious global social, environmental and economic risks and it demands an urgent global response.
As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting:

The economic and geopolitical costs of unabated climate change could be very severe and globally disruptive. All countries and economies will be affected, but it will be the poorest countries that will suffer earliest and the most. The costs of action to reduce greenhouse gasses emissions in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change are manageable, especially if guided by a common international vision. Each year we delay action to control global emissions increases the risk of unavoidable consequences that will likely necessitate even steeper reductions in the future, causing potentially greater economic, environmental and social disruption. The shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities. New markets for low-carbon technologies and products, worth billions of dollars, will be created if the world acts on the scale required. In summary, we believe that tackling climate change is the pro-growth strategy. Ignoring it will ultimately undermine economic growth.

It is our view that a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low-carbon technologies. We believe that an enhanced and extended carbon market needs to be part of this framework as it offers the necessary flexibility, allows for a cost-effective transition and provides financial support to developing countries.

In order to avoid dangerous climate change, the overall targets for emissions reduction must be guided primarily by science. Even an immediate peaking in global emissions would require a subsequent reduction of at least 50% by 2050, according to the Fourth Assesment Report of the

Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, and the later the peak in emissions, the greater the required reduction. All countries will need to play their part but we recognise that the greatest effort must be made by those countries that have already industrialised.

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December in Bali, Indonesia, countries will have an opportunity to agree a work-plan of comprehensive negotiations to ensure such an agreement can be signed in Copenhagen in2009, to come into force post 2012.

We urge world leaders to seize this window of opportunity.
In return, we pledge to engage positively with governments to help develop the policies and measures that are needed internationally and nationally for the business sector to contribute effectively to building a low carbon economy.

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BALI ROAD MAP - UN Climate Change Conference, Bali, December 2007

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Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (right) and the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon at opening ceremony of the Plenary Session of The 13th COP/3rd CMP UN Framework Conference on Climate Change on Wed (12/12/ 2007 –S ource :http://www.indonesia-ottawa.org/



After the 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference on the island Bali in Indonesia in December, 2007, the participating nations adopted the Bali Roadmap (also known as the Bali Action Plan) as a two-year process to finalizing a binding agreement in 2009 in Denmark.

Cutting emissions

The nations acknowledge that evidence for global warming is unequivocal, and that humans must reduce emissions to reduce the risks of "severe climate change impacts". There was a strong consensus for updated changes for both developed and developing countries. Although there were not specific numbers agreed upon in order to cut emissions, many countries agreed that there was a need for "deep cuts in global emissions" and that "developed country emissions must fall 10-40% by 2020".

Charges of hypocrisy

The December 2007 global warming conference in Bali contributed to global warming in the following ways:

A November 25, 2007 article in Times Online reported that it was estimated that that year's conference would release the equivalent of 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide.

A December 18, 2007 article in the Sydney Morning Herald revealed new information that brought this total even higher. According to the article, a special custom air conditioning system was installed specifically for the conference. The air conditioning system used hydrochlorofluorocarbons, an outdated refrigerant gas that is especially bad for the problem of global warming. According to the article, the air conditioning used during the conference released the equivalent of 48,000 tons of carbon dioxide. The article stated, "... the refrigerant is a potent greenhouse gas, with each kilogram at least as damaging as 1.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide. Investigators at the Balinese resort complex at Nusa Dua counted 700 cylinders of the gas, each of them weighing 13.5 kilograms, and the system was visibly leaking."

Oxfam's Polar Bears protested in support of humans who are also losing their habitiat and natureal resources due to Climate Change at the UN Climate Change Conference on Thursday 6 December, 2007 Photos: Ng Swan Ti. More information oxfaminternational.wordpress.com or oxfam.org/climatechange.

Forests

The nations pledge "policy approaches and positive incentives" to protect forests.

Adaptation

The nations opt for enhanced co-operation to "support urgent implementation" of measures to protect poorer countries against climate change impacts.

Technology transfer

The nations will consider how to facilitate the transfer of clean technologies from industrialised nations to the developing countries.

Timescales

Work on the Bali roadmap will begin as soon as possible. Four major UNFCCC meetings to implement the Bali Roadmap are planned for 2008, with the first to be held in either March or April and the second in June, with the third in either August or September followed by a major meeting in Poznan, Poland in December 2008. The negotiations process is scheduled to conclude in 2009 at a major summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.