Clash over emissions in Bali by Zuzana Moravcova

Europeans and environmentalists are in confrontation with opposition by U. S. and others over a question of greenhouse gas emissions targets inclusion in a ‘roadmap' for a new climate accord intensified Tuesday. Over 10,000 politicians, officials, activists and journalists attended the talks on the tropical resort island. Delegates from 190 nations were discussing ways to widen a U.N.-led fight against global warming to all nations. They began updating the 1997 Kyoto protocol. A new international climate-change deal must be settled in time to ensure that action continues after 2012, when the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol ends. There were negotiations about reductions of 25 percent to 40 percent in industrialized nations' overall emissions going to be required by 2020, calling for even deeper cuts later. Stavros Dimas, the European commissioner for environment, said it was crucial toward preventing global temperatures from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over preindustrial levels. Indonesia has earlier planted millions of trees to absorb an estimated 50,000 tons of greenhouse gases to be emitted during U.N.-led climate talks in Bali. "The government of Indonesia is dedicating the carbon stock of the trees to offset the emissions produced by the U.N. meeting," said Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar. "We need this range of reductions by developed countries," he claimed. "Science tells us that these reductions are necessary. Logic requires that we listen to science."

by Zuzana Moravcova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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