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. <\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Germanwatch<\/a> has posted a video of the Climate Change Performance Index conference:<\/p>\n