Indonesia environment meeting sets 2009 deadline
October 26th, 2007
A meeting of world environment ministers and officials in Indonesia has accepted 2009 as the deadline for negotiations towards a new international treaty to fight climate change.
Our Jakarta Correspondent Geoff Thompson reports the Kyoto Protocol effectively expires in 2012 and after meeting with environment ministers and officials from 40 countries in Bogor the head of the United Nations Climate Secretariat.
Yvo de Boer said he is now confident that the UN Climate Change conference in Bali in December will launch negotiations to be completed by 2009.
The challenges confronting that timetable turn on the complexity of dividing emission limits between developed and developing nations and how to provide incentives to poorer nations to act on climate change.
Source: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/
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