Daily Brief from Bali - Tuesday 4 December

Paradise Lost - Beautiful Bali under threat from Climate Change

THE LATEST As delegates make their way to the UN's Climate Change Summit on the tropical island paradise of Bali, they must not let the surroundings fool them. Paradiseis under threat from rising sea levels, warming oceans and increases in extreme weather events. WWF says that developed nations should take the lead and take greater responsibility in emission reductions. Financial resources will have to be provided by the international community to help developing countries adapt to the damaging effects of climate change.

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The devastating impacts of climate change reach across the globe, but in the near-term those most at risk, and least responsible, are developing countries," says Hans Verolme, Director of WWF's Global Climate Change Programme. "It's the flood-prone
mega-deltas, such as Bangladesh, and drought-prone parts of Africa and Asia that are most at risk right now. The Bali Summit gives world leaders a small window of opportunity to respond and agree to set deeper cuts in CO2 emissions."

Background: In 1992, most countries joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to fight global warming and to adapt to the inevitable temperature increases. Fifteen years later Indonesia is hosting the third Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (MOP3) in conjunction with the 13th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP13) in Bali from 3 to 14 December.
The Bali conference will be the culmination of a momentous twelve months in the international climate debate. Over the past year, overwhelming scientific evidence of global warming, set out in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), put the reality of human-induced global warming beyond any reasonable doubt.

Key Issues:
· Governments attending the UN's Climate Change Summit in Bali in December must make deeper cuts in emissions post-2012.
· Governments of rich countries must increase funding for climate change adaptation in less developed countries.
· The world must cut emissions by 80 per cent by the middle of this century.

Materials for the Media:
Press Pack - All backgrounders, press work, photos, reports etc at
http://www.panda.org/climate.
TV Footage - For broadcast-standard video, please contact the Media
Team.
Online - Blog at www.panda.org/climate/blog. Global map of climate
change impacts at www.panda.org/climate/ipcc.
Spokespeople:
Hans Verolme, WWF's Global Climate Change Programme, +1 202 492 7358, hans.verolme@wwfus.org.
Fitrian Ardiansyah, WWF-Indonesia's Climate Change Programme, +62 812 9355 105,
fardiansyah@wwf.or.id.

Media team:
Brian Thomson (English, French, Italian) t +62 813 1808 5548, btomson@wwfint.org.
Martin Hiller (English, German, French) t+62 813 1875 9492,mhiller@wwfint.org.
Elshinta Marsden (English, Bahasa Indonesia) t +62 8161806321, esmarsden@wwf.or.id. Mariana Ramos (Portuguese, English, Spanish) t +62 813 1860 2114 marianaramos@wwf.org.br Soh Koon Chng (English, French), t +62 813 1860 2127 skchng@wwfint.org.