For two weeks during December 2007, more than 10,000 people converged on the island of Bali in Indonesia, representing over 180 different countries, and various sectors of society including governments, non-governmental organizations, university students and faculty, and the press. The reason: the United Nations International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by the nation and government of Indonesia. The conference marked the thirteenth meeting of the participants in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which began with the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992.
The goal of the 2007 conference was to establish a roadmap naming a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which was enacted in 2005 and has a first commitment period ending in 2012. The United Nations and its constituents have been working together to establish long-term guidelines and solutions to regulate waste and emissions and generate greener policies worldwide. Major topics of discussion for the conference included
The outcome of the conference was an agreement by the delegates upon the next steps in the Road Map to a Kyoto Protocol successor.
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A delegation from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies attended the UN's Global Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007. Students and faculty alike reported back from overseas, and many left blog entries on the school's website both during and after the conference. Here are some of their comments...
