Indonesia is the 3rd world emitter of CO2 after the USA and China, only for reasons of deforestation !!! I learned that last night in the 20pm newspaper of FR2 (see other post on this subject) ... and it is confirmed here
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http://www.orange.fr/bin/frame.cgi?u=ht ... tique.html
NUSA DUA (AFP) - 03/12/07 14:55
The international community reunited in Bali facing the climate threat
A key conference on climate change opened on Monday in Bali and welcomed Australia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gases on the same day.
This meeting under the aegis of the UN, scheduled until December 14, should make it possible to draw up a roadmap of discussions to extend beyond 2012 the Kyoto protocol on these gases responsible for global warming.
"Public expectations are high. The eyes of the world are on you," Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC), of the Netherlands solemnly told delegates.
Many participants immediately expressed their satisfaction when they learned that the newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had announced that he had ratified Kyoto.
The United States is now the only developed nation not to have done so.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said that Canberra's ratification prompted Washington to do the same.
"Once the United States has joined (Kyoto), we can get down to legislating on drastic reductions", the organization said in a statement.
The Kyoto Protocol (1997) is the only international tool to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are approaching record levels.
Scientists recommend cutting them in half by 2050 (80% for industrialized countries).
Global warming particularly threatens Indonesia, the world's third largest emitter of CO2 due to deforestation taking place there on a large scale. The archipelago could lose 2.000 islands if the oceans rise.
"The outcome of this conference will, to some extent, determine whether Bali and other vulnerable sites are destined to become lost havens or not," commented Mr. de Boer.
The meeting will take place in Nusa Dua, a peninsula south of Bali housing luxury hotel complexes, under the protection of 3.000 police and 7.000 soldiers.
Ten thousand participants - government officials, experts, environmental activists - began to animate debates on a wide variety of technical issues, ranging from wind energy to the carbon market, via geothermal energy or the advancement of the desert.
A "relaxed" dress code, without a jacket or tie, was deliberately chosen to save air conditioning, but many delegates struggled to take off their formal attire on Monday.
..... what a cinema for nothing !!! given the scale of the real reductions to be made.
De Boer said he hoped Bali would make a triple decision, first to start negotiations on the post-Kyoto protocol, secondly on a timetable for these negotiations and thirdly on a date to conclude them.
The GHG reduction thresholds and the possibly binding means to limit them will not be decided in Bali, but afterwards. Bali will therefore first be the framework for "negotiations on the negotiations".
"We will agree on how we are going to negotiate," Brice Lalonde, ambassador representing France for climate issues, told AFP.
“Instead of deciding on the destination port, we are in the process of setting sail but we do not know where we are going,” he summarized.
According to Rachmat Witoelar, Indonesian Minister of the Environment and new president of the UN climate convention, many governments want the negotiations launched in Bali to be concluded in 2009.
There would then remain three years of ratification before the first Kyoto commitment period expires in 2012.
Yvo de Boer suggested letting substance take precedence over form and focusing later on the legal framework.
"After all, a marriage contract is the climax of a love affair, not a talking point on the first date," he said.
