AWoGWNews Part Two - Bali Blather, December 16, 2007

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• The Deal
• Reactions
• Rollback?
• Day-by-Day
• Shameless Self Promotion
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The Deal

• 2007/12/15: UNFCCC: Decisions adopted by COP 13 and CMP 3
• 2007/12/15: Google:AP: A Look at the Bali Climate Change Plan
• 2007/12/15: EnviroMedia: Big Surprise Ending in Bali: US Agrees to "Action Plan" [advance unedited version: UNFCCC Decision -/CP.13]

  Reactions

• 2007/12/16: DotEarth: Voices on Bali, and Beyond
• 2007/12/15: Stoat: Bali round up
• 2007/12/16: Times(UK): Bali's crying shame
• 2007/12/16: CrTimber: A big win for the planet, and others
• 2007/12/15: Xinhuanet: WWF says Bali Roadmap "weak on substance"
• 2007/12/15: Xinhuanet: European Parliament delegates welcome Bali roadmap
• 2007/12/16: Xinhuanet: EU hails achievement of Bali climate conference
• 2007/12/14: CCA: Higlights from Bali
• 2007/12/15: GWWatch: Calvin Jones' Bali breakdown
• 2007/12/15: QuarkSoup: Bali's Failure
• 2007/12/15: DeSmogBlog: COP-13 Ends as COP-OUT

  Rollback?

• 2007/12/16: ABC(Au): Climate deal runs straight into trouble with US
• 2007/12/16: AFP: Climate deal runs straight into trouble with US
  A hard-fought deal fixing a 2009 deadline for a new treaty to tackle global warming ran straight into trouble Sunday with the United States voicing "serious concerns" over its provisions. As negotiators headed home after two weeks of intense haggling, the White House complained that the agreement did not do enough to commit major emerging economies such as China and India to big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
• 2007/12/15: ABC(Au): US holds 'serious concerns' about Bali climate deal
  The United States has "serious concerns" about a deal reached at the UN climate conference in Bali, including the role of major developing countries in cutting greenhouse gases, the White House said in a statement.
• 2007/12/15: ENN: White House voices concerns on future climate talks

  Day-by-Day

• 2007/12/15: ERabett: Slouching from Gomorrah - Bali, as Kyoto before it was about...
• 2007/12/16: IISD: Bali Conference Ends With Agreement on Roadmap
• 2007/12/16: TStar: Bali a step back from the abyss
• 2007/12/16: Telegraph(UK): Delegates depart Bali talks on a lot of hot air
• 2007/12/16: TGBeaver: Eyewitness in Bali: Bush delegation shamed into joining concensus
• 2007/12/15: Xinhuanet: UN climate change conference concludes with adoption of Bali Roadmap
• 2007/12/15: Xinhuanet: Bali Conference offers platform for voices on climate change
• 2007/12/16: CBC: Baird disappointed by 'watered down' Bali agreement
• 2007/12/15: BBC: US sets terms for climate talks
  The US has said the climate change negotiating process it agreed to in Bali must ensure developing states take their fair share of emission cuts. The deal did not meet this principle fully, the White House said - climate change could not be curbed by emission cuts from developed countries alone.
• 2007/12/16: SMH: Climate change victory
• 2007/12/16: SMH: US forced to concede on climate agreement
• 2007/12/15: Guardian(UK): Deal agreed in Bali climate talks
• 2007/12/16: Guardian(UK): Washington still prefers to stick its head in the sand
• 2007/12/16: Guardian(UK): Late-night drama pushes US into climate deal
• 2007/12/16: Guardian(UK): More questions than answers
• 2007/12/15: UNDispatch: Agreement Reached on the Bali Roadmap 1
• 2007/12/15: UNDispatch: Agreement Reached on Bali Roadmap 2
• 2007/12/15: UN: Secretary-General Ban welcomes climate change breakthrough in Bali
• 2007/12/14: UN: Climate change has no respect for borders and affects all, says Ban Ki-moon
• 2007/12/13: UN: Secretary-General extends stay in Bali to pursue climate change negotiations
• 2007/12/15: ABC(Au): Bali conference 'delivered on agenda'
• 2007/12/15: ABC(Au): US agrees to climate change compromise
• 2007/12/15: ABC(Au): Leaders resume debate on climate change declaration
• 2007/12/15: DotEarth: Move Over Kyoto -- Here Comes a "Copenhagen Protocol"
• 2007/12/15: NYT: Reversal by U.S. Yields Climate Plan
• 2007/12/15: WaPo: Nations Forge Pact on Global Warming, Climate Change
• 2007/12/15: PhysOrg: Bali Climate Talks Reach Agreement
• 2007/12/14: CCA: What does the Bali mandate mean?
• 2007/12/14: CCA: US U-Turn at Bali: The Dramatic Chronology
• 2007/12/13: EnviroMedia: US, Canada winning most "Fossil of the Day" awards in Bali
• 2007/12/15: EnviroMedia: Heard and Overheard in Bali [favorite quotes]
• 2007/12/15: GWWatch: Bali agreement on a 2009 climate pact
• 2007/12/14: TWM: Bali Buffoonery...
• 2007/12/15: TCE: Al Gore Tells World to Go it Alone
• 2007/12/15: TreeHugger: Al Gore Helps Pull The US' Monkey Wrench Out Of The World's Climate Treaty Gear Box
• 2007/12/14: DeSmogBlog: Europe Blinks; U.S., Canada Win Lame Bali Compromise
• 2007/12/15: ENN: Talks to launch on new climate pact
• 2007/12/15: ENN: Bali breakthrough launches climate talks
• 2007/12/15: ENN: Bali breakthrough launches historic climate talks
• 2007/12/15: ENN: Governments pleased with "defining" climate deal
• 2007/12/15: Yahoo: Global warming pact set for 2009 after US backs down
• 2007/12/15: G&M: Indigenous people describe real perils of global warming [Bali]
• 2007/12/15: OilChange: Merry Xmas, Big Oil
• 2007/12/15: ThinkP: [John] Bolton On Global Warming Conference: "If Anyone's Isolated Here, It's Al Gore"
• 2007/12/15: AfterGutenberg: Quite Weak, Still Forward - Earth as the Hostage in the Negotiations
• 2007/12/10: Oikos: Will the US be rewarded for failing to ratify Kyoto?
• 2007/12/15: EcoEcon: Global Forest & 'Env. Justice' Groups Condemn Bali Carbon Trading Schemes
• 2007/12/13: EcoEcon: Bloomberg Blasts Carbon Trading at UN Bali Conference
• 2007/12/15: ThinkP: Bali negotiators reach agreement after U.S. "U-turn."
• 2007/12/15: TMoS: Yippee! An Agreement to ...Talk
• 2007/12/15: Borges: Bali: The Outcome
• 2007/12/15: BBC: Delegates at the UN summit in Bali have agreed a deal on curbing climate change after days of bitter wrangling.
• 2007/12/15: CBC: Bali conference adopts plan to negotiate global warming agreement
• 2007/12/15: AFP: Global warming pact set for 2009 after US backs down
• 2007/12/15: G&M: Bali deal reached
• 2007/12/15: BBC: Bali deal 'omits specific cuts'
  Negotiators at the climate change conference in Bali have secured provisional agreement on a document on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The document launches talks that will end in 2009, but - as demanded by the United States - it lacks specific mention of targets for emission cuts. The EU wanted to commit rich nations to specified emissions cuts, but the US, Canada and Japan were opposed.
• 2007/12/15: SMH: March for a climate accord falters
• 2007/12/15: SMH: From little things big things grow
  As developed and developing countries disputed the wording of the declaration, business jostled to take the initiative on climate change...
• 2007/12/14: Guardian(UK): Climate talks edge towards deal
• 2007/12/14: Guardian(UK): Measuring the human cost of climate change
• 2007/12/14: Guardian(UK): World poised to sign climate deal
• 2007/12/15: Guardian(UK): The summit's carbon footprint
• 2007/12/15: Guardian(UK): Next president is best hope for US agreement
• 2007/12/15: Guardian(UK): FAQ: more hot air? What an emissions deal will mean
• 2007/12/15: Guardian(UK): World on brink of deal to combat global warming
  Last-minute compromise at UN conference - Friends of the Earth condemns 'suicide pact'
• 2007/12/14: Guardian(UK): Hanging by a thread...the UN climate process is in trouble as the talks draw to a close
• 2007/12/14: NatureCF: Gore urges delegates to bypass Bali roadblock
• 2007/12/14: KSJT: Lots of ink, not much news yet from Bali's climate talks
• 2007/12/12: PlanetArk: Tiny New UN Fund to Combat Droughts, Rising Seas
  A new UN fund to help poor nations cope with climate change threats such as droughts or rising seas can start up in 2008 after a draft deal at UN talks in Bali, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The Adaptation Fund now comprises only about US$36 million but could rise to US$1-$5 billion a year by 2030 if investment in green technology in developing nations surges, according to the highest UN projections.
• 2007/12/14: ClimateP: UN Creating Small Adaptation Fund by Going Carbon Neutral
• 2007/12/13: TruthOut: Bitter Divisions Exposed at Climate Talks
• 2007/12/13: TruthOut: Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits
• 2007/12/15: ABC(Au): Climate talks in Bali head for compromise
• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): Wong chairing meeting to secure Bali deal
• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): Bali meeting a 'road map' for Copenhagen
• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): Bali climate draft drops 2020 target
• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): Bali talkfest grinds to a halt
• 2007/12/14: DotEarth: Bali Deal: Negotiators Agree to Negotiate
• 2007/12/14: DotEarth: Bali High (but Beware the Hangover)
• 2007/12/14: PhysOrg: Climate Talks Head Toward Compromise Deal
• 2007/12/14: PhysOrg: Bali Climate Talks Stretch Into Saturday
• 2007/12/15: GWWatch: Bali deal deadline over, talks continue
• 2007/12/14: QuarkSoup: Bush Wins Bali
• 2007/12/14: TreeHugger: UNICEF Highlights Concerns Over Children and Climate Change in Bali
• 2007/12/14: ENN: Climate change "not luxury" for Africa [Wangari Maathai]
  Industrialized countries have a moral responsibility to help Africa mitigate the effects of climate change, Kenya's Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai said on Friday. "For the global South, especially Africa, environmental issues are not a luxury," the environmental activist said in an article in Kenya's Business Daily newspaper on the final day of climate change talks in Bali. "Arresting the world's warming and protecting and restoring our natural systems are issues of life and death for much of the world's population." The first African woman and 'green' activist to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, Maathai said the industrialized world needed to work with southern hemisphere nations to stop the devastation linked to global warming.
• 2007/12/14: ENN: EU-U.S. Climate Impasse Easing
• 2007/12/14: ENN: U.N. climate panel chief hopes for Bali timetable
• 2007/12/14: ENN: Bali climate talks draft drop 2020 emissions goal
• 2007/12/14: Yahoo: UN climate talks inch towards compromise
• 2007/12/13: Yahoo: Is America the Villain in Bali?
• 2007/12/14: OilChange: But Its Groundhog Day Again
• 2007/12/13: AfterGutenberg: A Beacon of Dark
• 2007/12/13: EnvFin: Bali talks go to the brink
• 2007/12/13: CDreams: Nation: Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits
• 2007/12/13: CDreams: Times(UK): Al Gore Lambasts US Climate Obstructions
• 2007/12/13: CDreams: Guardian(UK): The Bali Summit and American Sabotage
  The US is trying to sound constructive at the latest climate talks, but its aim is to put the boot in
• 2007/12/13: Reuters: Carbon cuts a must to halt warming-US scientists
• 2007/12/14: CSM: In Bali, new incentive for developing nations to curb emissions
  Forest-preservation pledges of $166 million this week could entice them to take part in a post-Kyoto climate deal.
• 2007/12/13: TWM: Yet More Obstruction...I see that the climate change negotiations in Bali are going pretty much the way everyone expected them to
• 2007/12/12: DerSpiegel: Stark Words at Bali Conference - Ban Ki-Moon Warns of Climate Change 'Oblivion'
• 2007/12/13: DerSpiegel: Discord at Bali Climate Conference - EU Threatens to Boycott US Climate Talks
• 2007/12/14: DerSpiegel: The World from Berlin - 'Bush Is Playing a Double Game'
• 2007/12/13: TLC: Global Warming: Beyond diplomatic niceties
• 2007/12/12: DerSpiegel: US at the Bali Climate Change Conference - The American Gap between Words and Deeds
  It sounds good -- at first. The US says it wants to be part of a climate treaty and looks forward to a new chapter in climate policy. But a closer look reveals that Washington continues to torpedo any concrete agreement.
• 2007/12/14: TLC: The climate deal that isn't
• 2007/12/14: BBC: Climate talks 'on brink' of deal
  The UN climate summit in Bali is "on the brink" of a deal, according to the UN's senior climate official, as talks look set to extend into an extra day. The EU has been pressing for a final text committing industrialised nations to specified emissions cuts, but the US, Canada and Japan are opposed.
• 2007/12/14: CBC: Bali climate talks extended
• 2007/12/14: AFP: Climate talks 'on brink of agreement': UN climate chief [Yvo de Boer]
• 2007/12/14: WSWS: Bush administration isolated at Bali climate conference
• 2007/12/14: Times(UK): Gore: 'Act on the climate and don't wait for the US - George Bush will soon be gone'
• 2007/12/14: G&M: G77 nations dig in heels in Bali
• 2007/12/14: LA Times: EU uses Bush's climate summit as leverage
• 2007/12/14: NYT: Gore Joins Chorus Chiding U.S. at Climate Talks
  Amid growing frustration with the United States over deadlocked negotiations at a United Nations conference on global warming, the European Union threatened Thursday to boycott separate talks proposed by the Bush administration in Hawaii next month. Humberto Rosa, the chief delegate from Portugal, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said the discussions next month would be meaningless if there were no deal at the conference here this week on the resort island of Bali. Germany's environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, told reporters, "No result in Bali means no Major Economies Meeting." He was referring to the formal name of the proposed American-sponsored talks.
• 2007/12/13: Time: Is America the Villain in Bali?
• 2007/12/14: BBC: Climate talks near end amid row
  World climate talks in Bali have gone into their scheduled last day amid fierce disagreement over targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Europe has warned the US it will boycott President George W Bush's climate change conference unless he backs firm targets for emissions cuts. Late on Thursday, the US responded by suggesting that any country should be allowed to escape mandatory curbs
• 2007/12/14: SMH: Bali talks hanging in the balance
• 2007/12/14: SMH: Gore urges Bali talks to go ahead without US
• 2007/12/14: Guardian(UK): US proposal threatens climate change deal
  Bali conference may end in failure after opt-out leak - EU threatens boycott if emissions cuts ignored The US was accused last night of trying to derail a global agreement on climate change by proposing that it becomes a voluntary agreement where countries set their own targets and timetables for reduction of greenhouse gases, rather than a legally binding one. With just one day left of the 14-day talks between representatives from more than 180 countries in Bali, it looks increasingly likely that no agreement will be reached by ministers
• 2007/12/14: Guardian(UK): US told to 'wake up' over climate change
• 2007/12/14: Guardian(UK): Bali's double standards - International pacts on carbon cutting are unfit for purpose - we need another Marshall plan
• 2007/12/13: CBC: Gore quotes NHL icon in apparent dig at Canada's climate stance
• 2007/12/13: HillHeat: Gore, Congress, Europe Assail U.S. Stance in Bali
• 2007/12/13: C411: Bali Bulletin: Horns Are Blaring
• 2007/12/13: C411: Dispatch from Bali: Week 2
• 2007/12/13: IISD: Day 10: 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore speaks at Climate Meeting in Bali
• 2007/12/13: TreeHugger: UN Backs Down on Strict Guidelines as Leaders Reach Tentative Agreement
• 2007/12/13: TreeHugger: Bali Blog #3:- "Atten-Shun!"
• 2007/12/13: DeSmogBlog: China, U.S. intransigence over climate policy hijacks Bali talks
• 2007/12/13: DeSmogBlog: EU to US: "Talk To Yourself!"
• 2007/12/13: ENN: Al Gore lays blame for Bali stalemate on U.S.
• 2007/12/13: Eureka: Another warm year as Bali conference ends - Preliminary global temperatures announced
• 2007/12/13: ClimateP: EU to Bush: No Road Map, No Summit
• 2007/12/12: ClimateP: Bali statement from Center for American Progress
• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): US, Australia holding out on emissions targets
• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): Gore urges divided climate summit to ignore US
• 2007/12/13: ABC(Au): EU criticises Rudd on climate change [not backing 25-40% cut from 1990 levels by 2020]
• 2007/12/13: ABC(Au): US must accept share of 'climate change burden'
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the US must shoulder its share of the burden of addressing climate change. Yesterday Mr Rudd targeted the US approach to global warming in his key address to the UN climate change summit in Bali. He says every country has an obligation to act on global warming.
• 2007/12/13: ABC(Au): EU, US deadlocked at climate change talks
• 2007/12/13: ABC(Au): US stalling on short-term climate targets
• 2007/12/12: ABC(Au): [Climate Change Minister, Penny] Wong urges cooperation, flexibility at climate summit
• 2007/12/12: ABC(Au): Rudd hints at US inaction on climate change
• 2007/12/12: PhysOrg: Virtual Congressman Speaks at Summit
  Rep. Edward Markey couldn't make it to Bali for the United Nations climate change summit, so he sent along the next best thing: an animated version of himself. Relying on computer technology, Markey, D-Mass., addressed the global climate change meeting Tuesday night using a virtual likeness of himself, known as an "avatar." Markey's 3-D computerized likeness wore a dark blue suit, a green tie and a white shirt. He used the online community Second Life to speak in front of a computerized image of the Bali conference setting
• 2007/12/13: PhysOrg: UN Warms Climate Talks Could Collapse
• 2007/12/13: GristMill: You first! No, you first! China and the U.S. are both obliged to act on climate change, quick-like
• 2007/12/13: GristMill: Roadblock at Bali Climate Conference? Not U.S.! The U.S. sits on the sidelines rather than leading the charge in a war on climate change
• 2007/12/12: GristMill: State of play in Bali - Second-to-last issue of the Bali ECO newsletter
• 2007/12/13: NatureCF: Al - and an altercation
• 2007/12/13: NatureCF: Deforestation a "thorny" issue at the Bali talks
• 2007/12/12: NatureCF: An audience with the UN Secretary-General - and some rather general statements
• 2007/12/13: OilChange: The Greenhouse Groundhog Day...How often has America prevented progress over international agreements on climate change?
• 2007/12/13: OilChange: Bali: Hot Air and Hypocrisy...
• 2007/12/12: AutoBG: European carmakers [ACEA] support Bali's Conference on climate change
• 2007/12/13: AmProg: Big Stakes In Bali
• 2007/12/13: ThinkP: Gore draws "rapturous" "ovation" at U.N. climate meeting
• 2007/12/13: TMoS: The EU Turns Its Back on Bush
• 2007/12/13: AFP: Climate change talks lurch into final day after Gore blasts US
• 2007/12/13: Times(UK): US rejects climate guidelines at Bali conference
• 2007/12/13: G&M: EU, U.S. square off over climate
  A battle between Europe and the United States erupted into the open today as the European Union threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate negotiations if Washington blocks a deal at the Bali climate conference. The clash was a sharp escalation of tensions over whether the Bali conference should set a goal of 25 to 40 per cent for greenhouse-gas reductions by wealthy nations by the end of the next decade
• 2007/12/13: AP: Gore: US Blocking Climate Talks Progress
• 2007/12/13: Guardian(UK): We may not get carbon deal, warns Benn
  Emissions wrangle 'should not overshadow progress' - US resistance criticised by Germany and China
• 2007/12/12: Guardian(UK): Full text: Ban-Ki moon [Bali] speech
• 2007/12/12: Guardian(UK): Bali delegates invited to join global warming sing along
• 2007/12/12: Guardian(UK): Climate talks progressing despite US opposition to targets, Benn says
• 2007/12/12: Guardian(UK): UN chief: World 'must act now' on climate change
• 2007/12/12: GristMill: Elephants in the room - Greenpeace India points out the obvious
• 2007/12/11: TerraDaily: 160-million-dollar plan to save forests launched at Bali talks
• 2007/12/12: IISD: Day 9 at Bali Climate Talks: Australia hands over instrument of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
• 2007/12/12: IISD: Day 9: Cornerstones of a future climate regime from a scientific perspective
• 2007/12/12: ENN: U.N.'s Ban urges 2009 deadline for climate deal
• 2007/12/11: Yahoo: Can the Planet Be Saved in Bali?
• 2007/12/11: Yahoo: Delegates Weaken Deforestation Proposal as U.S. Balks
• 2007/12/12: OilChange: "We gather because the time for equivocation is over" UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened the "high-level" talks in Bali with a call to action
• 2007/12/12: OilChange: Bali: Forest Deal on Table
• 2007/12/12: G&M: Rich, poor countries at odds over Bali climate deal
  [...] Canada and the United States are leading the opposition to the European proposal [to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by wealthy countries 25 to 40 per cent by 2020]
• 2007/12/12: CCurrents: The Bali Forecast - Low Expectations
• 2007/12/12: CSM: In Bali talks, U.S. balks at European emission targets - The EU wants a post-Kyoto pact to include cuts of 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels
• 2007/12/12: Rabble: The future beyond Bali - Prepare to be disappointed
• 2007/12/12: Xinhuanet: High-level segment of UN climate conference opens
• 2007/12/12: Xinhuanet: EU hopes Bali roadmap can be agreed at U.N. climate change conference
• 2007/12/12: Xinhuanet: U.N. chief urges flexibility, political will in climate talks
• 2007/12/12: Xinhuanet: U.S. seeks to work together toward "Bali Roadmap"
• 2007/12/12: Xinhuanet: UN climate change conference roars into decision-making segment
• 2007/12/12: Xinhuanet: U.N. top climate official warns consequences of climate change
• 2007/12/12: AFP: World demands breakthrough, UN chief tells deadlocked climate talks
• 2007/12/12: CTV: UN chief downplays carbon reduction targets at Bali
  The UN's chief says that calls at the Bali climate talks for rich countries to slash their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 may have to wait for later negotiations. "Realistically, it may be too ambitious" to set guidelines now, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters on Wednesday, even as he urged the United States to be flexible. "Practically speaking, this will have to be negotiated down the road." The conference, which ends Friday, is being held to set the stage for negotiating a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the landmark climate change treaty that expires in 2012. Ban called for the replacement treaty to be finalized by late 2009
• 2007/12/12: Times(UK): Act now on climate change or face oblivion, warns UN chief
  Humanity faces oblivion if it fails to reach agreement on global warming, Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, said yesterday as the US and the European Union continued to scuffle over a successor to the ten-year-old Kyoto treaty on climate change. "The world's scientists have spoken with one voice: the situation is grim and urgent action is needed," Mr Ban said at a gathering of 190 countries on the Indonesian island of Bali. "The situation is so desperately serious that any delay could push us past the tipping point, beyond which the ecological, financial and human costs would increase dramatically. We are at a crossroads: one path leads to a comprehensive climate change agreement, the other one to oblivion."
• 2007/12/13: Yahoo: UN chief says gas cut targets might be too ambitious for Bali climate conference
• 2007/12/12: BBC: 'Crunch time' for climate change
  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has opened high-level talks at the climate change conference in Bali with a call to action. He said that if no action was taken, the world would face impacts such as drought, famine and rising sea levels. Delegates are hoping to agree a "Bali roadmap" leading to further cuts in greenhouse gas emissions when the Kyoto Protocol targets expire in 2012. The US and Canada are among countries opposed to further binding targets. The UN itself wants developed countries to commit to cuts of 25-40% by 2020
• 2007/12/12: SMH: India and China crucial in greenhouse targets: adviser
• 2007/12/11: Guardian(UK): Forest protection expected to form key part of Bali climate deal
• 2007/12/12: Guardian(UK): Progress on protecting forests raises climate hopes
  Plan favours rich nations, say green campaigners - Britain and Europe fight to keep emission cuts target Negotiators working to agree a new global climate deal scored their first success yesterday, with progress agreed on deforestation and how to help poor countries adapt to climate change. Officials said steps to protect forests were included in a new draft of the so-called Bali roadmap, and that they expected them to appear in the final text produced at the end of the talks on Friday. The move would make financial rewards for not chopping down trees part of a new climate deal
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): UN calls for climate deal deadline
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): [Aussia PM, Kevin] Rudd arrives in Bali amid obstruction accusations
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Wong tight-lipped on Bali draft declaration
  Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has refused to be drawn on whether Australia is part of a group of countries trying to water down a draft declaration at the UN climate change meeting in Bali
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Australia 'fair dinkum' about climate change
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Finance ministers discuss climate costs in Bali
• 2007/12/12: ABC(Au): Rudd's Bali choices
• 2007/12/12: ABC(Au): Bali delegates deadlocked on targets
• 2007/12/12: ABC(Au): Bali's fishermen adapt to climate change
• 2007/12/11: DotEarth: Bali Update: "Non Paper" a Nonstarter for U.S.
• 2007/12/11: PhysOrg: Emission Cuts Debated at Climate Summit
• 2007/12/10: BBC: No unity yet at UN climate talks
  Disagreements over responsibility for tackling climate change remain much in evidence as UN climate negotiations enter their second week. The EU and developing countries want industrialised nations to start talks on a further set of emissions targets. But this is being resisted by a number of parties led by Canada
• 2007/12/11: IISD: Day 8 at Bali Climate Talks: Climate change and human development: charting a new course through international cooperation
• 2007/12/11: IISD: Day 8 at Bali Talks: Climate change and the Millennium Development Goals
• 2007/12/11: IISD: Day 8 at Climate Talks: The cost of climate change and the role of the finance sector
• 2007/12/11: SMH: War of words on emissions confronts PM
  Kevin Rudd may fly into an unresolved fight over the wording of a global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions when he makes his first appearance on the world stage as Prime Minister in Bali today. The battle to keep tough wording in the final agreement of the United Nations climate change conference is still being played out, and the deal could still be in dispute today, just a day before the high-level stage of the conference gets under way
• 2007/12/10: Guardian(UK): US balks at Bali carbon targets
• 2007/12/11: Guardian(UK): US resists setting target on cutting carbon pollution
• 2007/12/10: NatureCF: Coughing up the cash [Bali]
• 2007/12/10: KSJT: In Bali, the talks go on. And in Oslo, Gore gets his medal
• 2007/12/10: TruthOut: US Rejects Stiff 2020 Greenhouse Goals in Bali - Washington wants two more years of negotiations
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): UN wants Rudd to declare emissions target
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): US out to water down Bali targets
• 2007/12/10: ABC(Au): UN climate chief [Rajendra Pachauri] says science clear, move on
• 2007/12/10: ABC(Au): UN releases Bali draft declaration
• 2007/12/10: GristMill: The real action in Bali - Grassroots mobilizes over the weekend at int'l climate conference
• 2007/12/09: GristMill: The Bali is in our court - US reps to present unfinished energy bill to UNFCCC
• 2007/12/09: GristMill: Some convenient truths - Scaling back our energy-hungry lifestyles means more of what matters, not less
• 2007/12/10: DailyKos: A Tale of Myopia from Bali
• 2007/12/09: MTobis: Bali Story on DKos
• 2007/12/10: C411: Dispatch from Bali: Week 1
• 2007/12/09: QuarkSoup: Bali - The Bali climate conference has been going on for a week now -- so how's it going? Not very well
• 2007/12/10: TreeHugger: China To U.S.: Stop Consuming So Much!
• 2007/12/10: TreeHugger: Bali Blogging:- "Excuse Me Mister, Where Are You Going?"
• 2007/12/10: TreeHugger: Solar Taxi Making a Splash in Bali
• 2007/12/10: IISD: Day 7 at Climate Talks: Delegates agree on adaptation fund
• 2007/12/10: IISD: Day 7 at Climate Talks: GHG emissions from aviation and maritime transport
• 2007/12/09: DeSmogBlog: Bali: U.S., Canada, Japan Stand Up for Selfishness
• 2007/12/10: ENN: U.S rejects stiff 2020 greenhouse goals in Bali
• 2007/12/10: ENN: Finance ministers in Bali count climate costs
• 2007/12/10: Yahoo: U.N. climate talks under pressure to drop 2020 goals
  The United States has urged a tough 2020 target for rich nations to axe greenhouse gas emissions to be dropped from a draft text at climate change talks in Bali, delegates said on Monday
• 2007/12/10: OilChange: Bali: America Refuses to Sign Up to Targets
• 2007/12/10: OilChange: And So Does Australia...
• 2007/12/09: AfterGutenberg: United States Unwilling to make a Climate Security Commitment
• 2007/12/10: CDreams: IPS: No Deal in Sight at Bali
• 2007/12/10: CDreams: Guardian(UK): US Balks at Bali Carbon Targets
• 2007/12/10: CSM: At Bali climate change meeting, a hard look at Kyoto - Old climate change standards offer lessons as diplomats consider a successor pact
• 2007/12/10: NYT: Two Top Polluters Oppose Caps in Bali
• 2007/12/09: TSun: New Kyoto must include U.S., China
• 2007/12/09: NYT: U.S. 'Not Ready' to Commit at Bali
• 2007/12/10: SMH: Deep emission cuts on cards
• 2007/12/09: CBC: Plan to scrap tariffs on green technology falters in Bali

My first novel Water was published in Canada May, 2007. The American release was in October. An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk. An overview of my writing is available here.

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"Now, finally, we are gathered together in Bali to address the defining challenge of our age. We gather because the time for equivocation is over. The science is clear. Climate change is happening. The impact is real. The time to act is now." -UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

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