Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd arrived in Bali, Indonesia, on Tuesday to attend the Dec. 3-14 UN climate change conference, according to Australian officials.
This was his first overseas trip as prime minister and he is under pressure to back an interim greenhouse gas reduction target of up to 40 percent for developed countries.
The prime minister is to hold a meeting with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Tuesday night.
He said he wants to help bridge the gap between rich and poor countries in the climate change negotiations.
Indonesia is currently hosting a UN climate change conference, which is tasked with drawing up a "roadmap" for negotiations on a new climate deal in the next two years before the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
The Protocol requires 36 industrial countries to reduce to reduce greenhouse gas emissions below levels specified for each of them. Overall, this should amount to reductions of at least 5 percent below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012.
Rudd-led new Australian government ratified the Kyoto Protocol last week. But Australia was vague on whether it supported an interim emissions reduction target of 25-40 percent by 2020 in draft text.
Source: Xinhua
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