Storm brewing in Bali
Updated on 13 December 2007
With just a day to go at the Bali climate change talks, the European Union and the United States are accusing one another of blocking a deal.
The summit, the first step on agreeing a successor to the Kyoto protocol, is teetering on a disagreement over targets for carbon emissions. The EU wants to include a broad goal for rich nations at the outset, the US says any such target should be arrived at later in the process.
Conservationists released over 200 baby turtles into the clear waters hoping they would prick the consciences of the climate conference delegates currently in deadlock. The message on this Bali beach, sort out this agreement or their fate will be on your heads.
But the US, which is concentrating its climate policy on investment in new technologies like gydropen and clean coal, want further negotiations before agreeing to these emission targets.
