As the Bali summit enters its final week, the reduction targets road map for future talks looks increasingly threatened to materialize due to the opposition from the U.S., Canada and Japan.
“U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Nobel laureate Al Gore and other prominent figures will arrive on the resort island of Bali in the coming days to try to provide momentum toward finalizing a Bali Roadmap, which will eventually lead to a successor accord for the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012,” said a report by the Associated Press. Let’s hope this week’s talks produce more encouraging results.
Elsewhere, Germanwatch has posted a video of the Climate Change Performance Index conference:
