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• WWF Beginners' Guide to the UN Climate Change Negotiations [pdf, 50 KB]
• Climate Change in Indonesia - Impacts [pdf, 1.06 MB]
• Climate impacts on Indonesia (powerpoint presentation) [pdf, 744 KB]
• Breaking Climate Records, 2007 [pdf, 179 KB]
• WWF Position Statement Trade and Finance Ministers Meeting at UNFCCC Bali COP [pdf, 24 KB]

Key Issues:

• Governments attending the UN’s Climate Change Summit in Bali in December must make deeper cuts in emissions post-2012. "Bali is about more than talking,” says Hans Verolme, Director of WWF’s Global Climate Change Programme. “The rich countries can show they are serious about stopping global warming in its tracks by committing in Bali to emissions reductions of at least 30 per cent by 2020. Time is fast running out – we need to use the Kyoto system to expand global carbon markets and stimulate investments in clean technologies.”
• Governments of rich countries must increase funding for climate change adaptation in less developed countries. “Climate change is hitting home, and we can clearly see the first impacts here in Indonesia,” says WWF-Indonesia’s Climate and Energy Programme Director, Fitrian Ardiansyah. “It’s only fair that polluters support us when we build up our defences against climate change. But we can act directly ourselves too, by halting the destruction of tropical forests, which is one of the major sources of CO2.”
• The world must cut emissions by 80 per cent by the middle of this century. "The clean technologies and smart policies necessary to combat climate change exist already - all we need is for political decision-makers to give them the strong support they deserve,” says Dr Stephan Singer, Head of WWF’s European Climate Change Programme. “The world needs a third industrial revolution for a low-carbon development in all large CO2 emitting nations - the negotiations here will show if our political leaders can start this task.”