The newly-elected president of the 13th Session of Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, expressed hope Monday that the meeting could formulate a roadmap for another climate change arrangement for post Kyodo implementation.
Rachmat Witoelar, who just elected as the president of conference after the opening of the UN climate change conference on Monday, said in an interview earlier with local press that he is basically expecting a clearer and more transparent implementation of the Kyodo Protocol on climate change would be agreed upon during the Bali meeting.
Rachmat, who is also Indonesian Environment Minister, said the roadmap, among others, will include a new commitment for further reduction of carbon emissions from the 5 percent agreed in the Kyodo agreement, thus paving the way for a better and more legally binding agreement that will be negotiated in next year's conference in Poland and then signed in Copenhagen.
"That is why securing a positive outcome from the Bali conference is very crucial. A failure will mean jeopardizing our survival on this Earth," he stressed.
The conference, which will last till Dec. 14, is attended by more than 10,000 people from some 180 countries.
The conference, among other things, will discuss mitigation, adaptation, transfer of technology and financing.
Source: Xinhua
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