Bali Roadmap

The Bali Road Map - the Road to Copenhagen

At the 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia in December, 2007, the participating nations adopted the Bali Roadmap as a two-year process to finalizing a binding agreement in 2009 in Denmark.

The Bali Road Map consists of a number of forward-looking decisions that represent the various tracks, essential to reaching a secure climate future. The Bali Road Map includes the Bali Action Plan, which charts the course for a new negotiating process designed to tackle climate change, with the aim of completing this by 2009. To conduct the process, a subsidiary body under the Convention was set up, called the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA). Read more on AWG-LCA here.

To discuss future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol, the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol established a working group in December 2005, called the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP). The AWG-KP is also set to complete its work by the end of 2009. Read more on AWG-KP here.

The work on the Bali roadmap has already begun. Four major UNFCCC meetings to implement the Bali Roadmap took place in 2008. They will be followed by COP14 in Poznan, Poland in December 2008. The negotiations process is scheduled to conclude in 2009 at COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

See the relevant meetings and milestones leading up to COP15 here.

Read the closing statements by the President of the COP, Mr. Rachmat Witoelar here (pdf 34 kB).

Read the Danish Minister for Climate and Energy's speech The Winding and Stony Road Towards Copenhagen here.