Bali summit 2007
Back from Bali: The 2007 UN climate change conference
In this film Keith Allott, head of climate change and Kit Vaughan, climate change adaptation adviser at WWF-UK talk about how climate change is already having negative impacts on vulnerable people, ecosystems and species.
WWF and other NGOs were instrumental in convincing governments at the UN meeting in Bali in December 2007 to create a roadmap to address the threat of climate change.
At this critical UN meeting, ministers and delegates from more than 190 countries met to discuss plans for a new global agreement to come into force after 2012, when the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol comes to an end.
Considerable progress was made at Bali, but some countries such as the US and Canada continued to block consensus on important targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions from industrialised countries, recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
During the final hours of the 15-day meeting, the US delegation, under intense pressure from NGOs such as WWF, the media and other delegates, finally agreed to a compromise.
If the world warms by just 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures, it will lose perhaps 20-30% of all species of plants and animals.
But everyone can help reduce the worst impacts of climate change – support renewable energy schemes, fly less, buy only the most efficient products and consume less, and challenge political leaders to do more.
This film shows how we need to create a global solution and that the UN framework discussed in Bali is the best means we have to do so.
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