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Wide of stage at UN Climate Change Conference in Bali2. Panel arriving on stage3. Pan right from Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC Yvo de Boer, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of stage at UN Climate Change Conference in Bali\u003cbr/\u003e2. Panel arriving on stage\u003cbr/\u003e3. Pan right from Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC Yvo de Boer, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the Conference Rachmat Witoelar, and President of Palau Thomas Remengesau\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of stage\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway audience\u003cbr/\u003e6. Ban shaking hands with Yudhoyono\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rachmat Witoelar, President of the Conference:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Your excellencies, ministerial colleagues, honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to declare open the (inaudible) high level segment of the conference of the parties, at this the (inaudible) session and the conference of the parties, serving as a meeting of the parties to the Kyoto protocol at its third session.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e8. Audience clapping\u003cbr/\u003e9. Ban and Yudhoyono clapping\u003cbr/\u003e10. Audience clapping\u003cbr/\u003e11. Witoelar thanking audience\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of stage\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We gather because the time for equivocation is over. The science is clear. Climate change is happening. The impact is real. The time to act is now.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Cutaway audience\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General:\u003cbr/\u003e\"By being creative, we can reduce green house gas emissions while promoting economic growth. In this sense, climate change is as much an opportunity as it is a threat. It is our chance to usher, in a new age of green economics and truly sustainable development.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Cutaway audience clapping\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Climate change affects us all, but it does not affect us equally. Those who are least able to cope are being hit hardest. Those who have done the least to cause the problem bear the gravest consequences. We have an ethical obligation to right this injustice.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Pan of audience\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Kyoto protocol was a good start. But this is still way below the 25 to 40 percent benchmark required to stabilise world (inaudible) temperature. The Kyoto protocol also did not adequately address the issue of sustainable forestry in developing countries, our indispensable carbon sinks.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Pan of audience clapping\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia: (referring to Australia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I did so and my government has done so because we believe that climate change represents one of the greatest moral, economic and environmental challenges of our age. Australia now stands ready to assume its responsibility in responding to this challenge, both at home and in the complex negotiations which lie ahead, across the community of nations.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of audience clapping  \u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Given this wide range of situations of different countries, the post-2012 framework cannot use a one-size-fits-all procrustean approach. An equitable solution must take account of diversity and national circumstances. The smaller and more vulnerable countries in particular will need technical assistance to put in place effective adaptation measures.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Cutaway audience clapping\u003cbr/\u003e25. Wide of Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Michael Somare arriving at lectern \u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Somare, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Humanity must not allow our fragile island societies, with civilisations older than those of North America and South America to be drowned by the swelling seas.\" \u003cbr/\u003e27. Pan of audience\u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide of podium\u003cbr/\u003eThe world must quickly impose deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions or risk environmental and economic disaster, leaders at a climate change conference declared on Wednesday, as delegates struggled to overcome a divide over whether rich nations should set reduction guidelines.\u003cbr/\u003eThe conference, ending on Friday, is tasked with setting an agenda and deadline for negotiations leading to a global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol at the end of 2012. \u003cbr/\u003eThe meeting follows a year of high-profile scientific reports warning of rising seas, droughts and melting ice-sheets because of rising temperatures.\u003cbr/\u003eA series of speeches by government and UN leaders on Wednesday coincided with a battle between the United States and the European Union over whether the final conference document should included guidelines calling on industrialised countries to cut greenhouse gases by between 25 percent and 40 percent by 2020.\u003cbr/\u003eThe United States, with ally Japan, is against including the numbers, saying goals should be subject to negotiations in coming years. \u003cbr/\u003eThe EU and developing nations, however, argue that such cuts are needed to keep temperatures below a tipping point of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over preindustrial levels.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeakers urged delegates to overcome their differences.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We gather because the time for equivocation is over. The science is clear. Climate change is happening. The impact is real. The time to act is now,\" said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.\u003cbr/\u003eBan and other leaders laid out the basic parameters of an agreement: that rich nations, as the prime drivers of global warming, should make the first cuts in emissions and help poorer countries develop in a clean way with\u003cbr/\u003etechnology and assistance. \u003cbr/\u003eSpeakers also called on quickly developing nations, such as China, to rein in high levels of pollution.\u003cbr/\u003eThe most poignant call for action came from island nations, which face possible extinction by rising seas fuelled by global warming.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Humanity must not allow our fragile island societies, with civilisations older than those of North America and South America to be drowned by the swelling seas,\" said Michael Somare, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea.\u003cbr/\u003eMany also called for more robust participation by the United States, which became the only major industrialised nation to have rejected the Kyoto Protocol when Australia signed the pact last week after years of opposition.\u003cbr/\u003eDelegates applauded Australia several times on Wednesday after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd handed over ratification papers for the protocol to Ban. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Australia now stands ready to assume its responsibility in responding to this challenge, both at home and in the complex negotiations which lie ahead, across the community of nations,\" he told the conference.\u003cbr/\u003eNegotiations were to intensify in the final days of the two-week conference.\u003cbr/\u003eA version of a revised conference document obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday included specific guidelines for industrialised countries to cut emissions, but it remained to be seen if the 25 percent and 40 percent\u003cbr/\u003efigures would make it into the final document, which was to be released on Friday.\u003cbr/\u003eThe draft statement also included the word \"commitments\" for the first time in addressing what rich nations should do to reduce greenhouse emissions. This language may also be opposed by the United States, which has\u003cbr/\u003esupported only voluntary gas-cut measures so far.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new document called for consideration of action by developing countries to control emissions. 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