Hoping for an agreement to save humanity

Time is not waiting for anyone, and this is even more true when 185 countries gather in Bali (Indonesia) today to agree on a roadmap to stop climate change.

About 12,000 delegates, including 130 environmental ministers from 185 countries and more than 1,000 businesses, will meet in Bali island from today (December 3) to December 14 to lay foundations. First for a new protocol to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

Indonesian students plant trees during Jakarta's tree planting campaign ahead of Bali Conference on December 1 (photo: AP)

Information from Pham Khoi Nguyen, Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, said Vietnamese delegation representatives attended the Bali conference as Standing Deputy Minister Nguyen Cong Thanh.

"Only a little time to act"

Recently, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that their latest report on climate is still flawed.Spiegel Online quoted Yvo de Boer, secretary-general of the United Nations Climate Change Framework Agreement, saying: "The future is much worse, because IPCC's disaster forecasts are based on quantity Current CO ₂ emissions, which actually increase by 3% every year Scientists are telling us that there is very little time to take action, within 10-15 years, we need to do it Current CO ₂ emissions are reduced ".

In fact, the Kyoto Protocol (requiring 35 of the world's largest economies to cut emissions to 5% below 1990 levels) was not effective at preventing warming temperatures. Both the US, China and India - the "owner" of 1/3 of global emissions - have not passed this protocol. Thus, only about 800 million of the 6.6 billion people worldwide are committed to reducing emissions under Kyoto while the rest is not.

Europe's pioneering mission

Europe is pioneering in dealing with today's environmental change. Programs and action plans of governments all lead to climate change as a priority.

Emil Salim, Indonesia's team leader, said: "We hope this conference is like an engagement - the parties come together. Next year, the conference in Poland will be wedding, and in Copenhagen a child will be born ".

Convincing the United States, the world's largest emitter, is Europe's priority in Bali. They hope that with the IPCC's research results and the change in the US president in 2009, the US will change its current policy. Fatih Birol, chief economist of the World Energy Agency, warned: " Without China, India and the United States involved, we have no chance to solve this problem ."

In addition, the EU wants developing countries to control their current emissions. These are the new economic and polluting nations like Brazil, China and India. But cutting emissions is not the only goal in Bali. It also includes initiatives to help poor countries and vulnerable areas to cope with actual climate change. In addition, delegates hope to place the first stones for the Kyoto Protocol construction, which will expire in 2012.

Thus, essentially climate change is not just climate change. It also includes a broader implication, regarding economic growth, water, food security and human survival, especially the poorest people in the world. The Bali Declaration, if achieved after December 14, will be an agreement for the benefit of both developing and developing countries.

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