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On our JavaBlend Bali Conference sub-site, Dan Shepard, an information officer with the United Nations Department of Public Information, writes in with an important update from the negotiations:

One of the areas of visible disagreement at the Bali Conference is over targets, or goals, in the outcome of Bali. The Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested that a reduction in greenhouse gases in the range of 25-40 per cent by 2050 was necessary in order to keep the earth's temperature from rising 2 degrees Celsius. The EU suggested that a roadmap would require a "long-term" vision and that includes setting such a target. The US , however, has maintained that the Bali document should not contain targets or any other goals that would "prejudge" the outcome of the negotiations.

Given the pre-Bali positions of some member states, this particular fault line was likely to be exposed sooner or later. Read Breaking Down Bali to see how these sorts of disagreements may be overcome.

Posted by Mark Leon Goldberg at 11:18 AM