AFP, Bali

A major UN-sponsored climate change conference opened on Indonesia’s Bali Monday, tasked with crafting a road map for negotiations leading to a new pact for addressing global warming.
The 11-day conference, held under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and attended by more than 180 nations, comes as evidence mounts of the havoc rising sea levels and extreme weather patterns are set to wreak on world ecosystems and humankind.
Under the new pact, industrialised countries will be pressed to massively reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases from the end of 2012, when the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires. [Read more]

AFP, Bali

A major UN-sponsored climate change conference opened on Indonesia’s Bali Monday, tasked with crafting a road map for negotiations leading to a new pact for addressing global warming.
The 11-day conference, held under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and attended by more than 180 nations, comes as evidence mounts of the havoc rising sea levels and extreme weather patterns are set to wreak on world ecosystems and humankind.
Under the new pact, industrialised countries will be pressed to massively reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases from the end of 2012, when the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires. [Read more]