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UN Conference in Bali

Results of the UN conference in Bali … Last Saturday, December 16, ended with the UN conference in Bali. She has been hot debate, as well as many important decisions that seriously affect the immediate future of mankind. At the very end of the debate of global warming. The Last Days Forum noted a compromise agreement to launch negotiations on further reductions in carbon dioxide. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called it 'good news', encouraging a relatively safe from an environmental point of view of humanity's future. Agreed in Bali also, that by the end of 2009 the negotiations under UN auspices will be accepted specific obligations of the parties.

The new treaty, known as the Bali 'roadmap' will replace the current Kyoto Protocol, the term which will expire in 2012. Speaking at the launch of the report the UN Development Programme (UNDP) 'Human Development', Ban drew attention to the Bali forum on the main conclusion that global warming may slow the progress of mankind. "Climate change is already beginning to affect the poorest and most vulnerable countries and populations around the world '- according to the authors of the report. According to them, growth average temperature of the planet in coming decades by three degrees Celsius in the lifetime of our generation would lead to floods, melting glaciers and massive displacements of people, as well as to reduce production supply. 'All the scientists in one voice say that climate change can be seen with the naked eye, they are global in nature and are the first victims are the poor countries', – said the head of the international community.