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Mission Save Earth: Green warriors unite in Bali
Published on Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:23, Updated on Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:43 in Sci-Tech » Science section
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Bali: Call it mission mitigation. Prime ministers, industry icons, Hollywood actors will all be here on the island resort of Bali sharing space with government officials, UN agencies and NGOs to fight the for climate cause.
The Kyoto Protocol - that currently binds 36 industrial nations to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by an average of five percent below 1,990 levels - will lapse in 2012.
The task is a tough one - to get the world at large to agree to a roadmap to fight global warming by 2009. The crucial development has come at the very outset with Australia signing the kyoto treaty.
"Great news that Australia has finally agreed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. As the world's biggest coal exporter, Australia has to really ask itself a question - is it going to get serious and deal with climate change or is it going to keep exporting coal and simply fuel the problem and make it worse,” says Shane Rattenbery of Green Peace International.
The conference comes amid dire warnings that global warming is already irreversible. As global surfcae tempreatures continue to climb, glaciers melt and sea levels rise, developing nations and island countries face the worst risk. Not helping matters is that most countries have not managed to meet the kyoto targets set in 2001 So is the Bali really poised to find a solution to this crisis?
Experts say conference is not expected to deliver a fully negotiated climate deal right away, but set the necessary wheels in motion. India's stand at Bali is clear- as developing nation it is will not commit to any binding cuts at the cost its economic development.
India's official report states cost of climate change mitigation will cost $2 trillion, something it cannot afford to spend when its per capita emissions is only 1.5 tonnes, 20 times less than the US
“India has not contributed significantly to climate change but is among the worst sufferers. What we must see in future international regimes is that adaptation to climate change must receive equal attention, resources and provision of technology transfer from rich countries that will help us cope,” says delegate, Balli conference, Pradipto Ghosh.
But that still leaves United States the biggest emitter opposed to Kyoto.
While an improved substitute to Kyoto is sometime away, the Bali talks may just achieve few things, like finally providing incentives to countries for preventing deforestation, which cause more carbon emissions than the transport sector.
Also required is a roadmap for clean technology transfer between rich and poor countries to better mitigate and adapt to climate change in the future.
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