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From December 3-14, over 180 countries are meeting in Bali, Indonesia, to discuss how to reduce global warming emissions, as soon as possible, and avert  dangerous climate change.

Environmental Defense’s delegation has three main goals:

• help the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change countries create a 2-year road map for negotiating a new climate treaty that would start in 2013,
• garner support for a program that compensates countries (via a variety of sources, including the carbon market) that slow deforestation and
• tell the world that the U.S. is starting to act on climate change on a variety of levels and through shifts in public opinion

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This year is critical for several reasons, chief among them is the need to launch a process for creating the next climate treaty.

• Planning for 2013 and beyond. It’s time to start the next global climate framework. To ensure the next agreement goes into effect in 2013, leaving no gap between the Kyoto Protocol and its successor, the new framework needs to be approved by the end of 2009.
• The latest scientific findings underscore the urgency to act now. The climate talks come on the heels of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in which the world’s scientists make clear: we must start reducing global warming pollution immediately.
• The U.S. is starting to act. This is an especially critical year for the United States. As the number one global warming polluter, the U.S. needs to show the world that though we have yet to establish national climate change policy, the country is moving on the issue. Here are three areas of action:
  • Leading U.S. companies are calling for a cap on global warming pollution - 27 of America’s top firms, including General Electric and Duke Energy,  have joined together with several leading environmental groups to form U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a strategic alliance to address climate change;
  • Congress is considering serious action – The U.S. Senate is on the verge of sending the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act to the Senate floor (see an overview of the bill).
  • States have developed legally binding action plans to cut global warming pollution – California, New Jersey, Hawaii, Washington and Oregon have statuary caps on global warming emissions while 35 states have climate action plans.
• Addressing deforestation. Finally, but not of least importance, is the fact that Indonesia — the third largest global warming polluter — is hosting the talks. The culprit? Deforestation, which is responsible for one-fifth of global warming pollution. Dealing with deforestation figures large in this year’s agenda, and solutions will build on Environmental Defense’s work on this issue since the late 1990s.