The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali yesterday ran behind
schedule to wrap up as negotiations were still underway after midnight.
The Bali Conference, which opened on Dec. 3, was originally scheduled to
conclude yesterday.
However, Ministers still needed more discussions and more time to iron out
differences over the language of a final document for the meeting.
On Wednesday, 144 ministers and high-level government representatives along
with six heads of state gathered in Bali for the high-level segment of the UN
climate conference, which is expected to launch negotiations on a new global
deal on climate change.
The conference, the 13th Conference of the 192 Parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the third meeting of the 176
Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, is being attended by more than 11,000 people,
making it the largest UN climate change meeting ever held.
Next year's Climate Change Conference will be held in Poznan, Poland.
