Journalists and delegates are cutting carbon emissions at the Bali climate talks by cycling between the venues. So large is the Bali gathering that meeting rooms (there are dozens of them) are spread out among a number of luxury hotels.
So, instead of everyone walking (unlikely in the steamy tropical heat) or relying on fleets of air-conditioned talks and buses, the organisers have organised free bicycles for visitors to whizz between events.
The scheme is a success but there only a few hundred bicycles between 10,000 delegates.
Taxi!
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We, the Greenpeace delegation to the climate talks, use the bikes a lot here in Bali. It’s sweaty, but its a good, fast and carbon-free way to get around here. Sadly, some of the bikes are sponsored by Medco energi - a fossil fuel company that is also trying to build a nuclear power plant in Java - just beside a volcano. Not smart, if you ask us. For the full story, go here http://weblog.greenpeace.org/climate/200 7/12/greenwash_bikes.html
- Posted by DanielMittlerWhat a total waste of time, millions of dollars. 12,000 stupid people in Bali, cannot understand that the warming will continue unabated if all nations do not participate. How utterly senseless it will be if at least the BRIC nations do not immediately lay plans to meet goals. China, not US is the biggest polluter, and India right behind. You cannot even be honest in your reporting. I live in another BRIC nation, Brasil, and the burning of the Amazon is the fourth largest producer of gases in the world.
So these idiots from Europe and elsewhere cannot understand that the warming just keeps on growing, unless all are under the same regulations, and then I suppose you think they will follow them. It is senseless as I say, get on with solving something real in the world, because all of this is just “HOT AIR”.
- Posted by Ronald A. Ede