December 3, 2007
Embassy of the United States of America
Belgrade

Bali Roadmap: Progress Through a Global Effort

Starting December 3, the United States will join the other 191 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bali, Indonesia, for an important meeting that will be a key step for the global community in addressing the serious global challenge of climate change. At this two-week conference, the United States will work productively and constructively with other nations to help develop a “Bali Roadmap” that will chart the way for agreement on a new global climate change framework by 2009.

We seek a Bali Roadmap that will advance negotiations under the UNFCCC and develop a post-2012 framework that effectively addresses climate change and strengthens our energy security.

The United States believes that a post-2012 framework for climate change must be environmentally effective and economically sustainable. Emissions are global and the solution, to be effective, will need to be global. An approach in which only some are acting is not environmentally effective. Moreover, a future framework must be flexible and accommodate a diverse range of national circumstances, as well as broad social and economic goals.

The United States is working at home and abroad on a range of initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve energy security and cut harmful air pollution. We have a diverse portfolio of domestic policy measures including dozens of mandatory, incentive-based, market-based, and voluntary programs to reduce our domestic emissions. We have also devoted $37 billion to help develop and deploy innovative technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while allowing for economic growth.

We know this can be done. From 2000-2005, the population of the United States grew by 5 percent (14 million people) and GDP grew by 12 percent (about $1.2 trillion) while our greenhouse gas emissions increased by only 1.6 percent. From 2005-2006, our economy grew 2.9 percent, but our greenhouse gas emissions actually decreased 1.5 percent.

Internationally, U.S. climate change policies are part of a broader, sustainable development agenda. We have initiated, or participate in many international partnerships—for example, the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate and the Methane to Markets Partnership—that address climate change in ways that promote economic growth and help nations deliver greater prosperity for their people. Building on these successes, the United States convened 17 of the world’s major economies—representing some 80 percent of the world’s economy, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions—and the United Nations for an inaugural Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change in September 2007. By working together constructively, the United States believes the Major Economies process can contribute to and help advance discussions under the UNFCCC.

At the conference in Bali, we will listen carefully to the ideas of others and share our own efforts and commitment to reach consensus on a “Bali Roadmap” that will guide the international community forward over the coming two years.

3. decembar, 2007
Ambasada Sjedinjenih Američkih Država
Beograd

Bali mapa: Napredak kroz globalne napore

Pocevsi od 3. decembra Sjedinjene Drzave ce se pridruziti predstavnicima 191 zemlje koje ce ucestvovati na Konferenciji Ujedinjenih nacija o klimatskim promenama (UNFCCC) na Baliju u Indoneziji koja ce biti najznacajniji korak ka resavanju ozbiljnog problema posledica klimatskih promena. Tokom dvonedeljne konferencije Sjedinjene Drzave ce sa drugim zemljama konstruktivno raditi na izradi "Bali mape" koja ce predstavljati putokaz za novi globalni okvir delovanja za klimatske promene do 2009. godine.

"Bali mapa" ce unaprediti pregovore sa Konferencije Ujedinjenih nacija o klimatskim promenama (UNFCCC) i izraditi novi okvir delovanja koji ce efikasno resavati probleme nastale usled klimatskih promena i ojacati nasu energetsku sigurnost posle 2012. godine.

Sjedinjene Drzave veruju da ce okvir delovanja za klimatske promene posle 2012. godine morati da bude ekoloski efikasan i ekonomski odrziv. Emisija stetnih gasova je globalni problem i da bi resenje ovog problema bilo efikasno treba da bude reseno na globalnom nivou. Pristup problemu gde samo neki ucestvuju nije ekoloski efikasan. Stavise, buduci okvir delovanja mora da bude fleksibilan i da se prilagodi okolnostima u razlicitim zemljama kao i sirokim socijalnim i ekonomskim ciljevima.

Sjedinjene Drzave razradjuju razlicite inicijative kako u svojoj zemlji tako i u inostranstvu da bi smanjili emisiju gasova s efektom staklene baste, ojacali energetsku sigurnost i smanjili stetno zagadjivanje vazduha. Imamo spektar zakona ukljucujuci obavezujuce zakone, stimulativne zakone, trzisne zakone kao i volonterske programe da bismo smanjili domacu emisiju gasova. Takodje smo odvojili 37 milijardi dolara da bi pomogli razvoj i primenu novih tehnologija za smanjivanje emisije stetnih gasova s efektom staklene baste koji istovremeno omogucavaju ekonomski razvoj.

Znamo da se ovo moze postici. Od 2000. do 2005. godine broj stanovnika u Sjedinjenim Drzavama se povecao za 5 odsto sto je oko 14 miliona ljudi. Takodje se povecao bruto domaci prozvod za 12 odsto (oko 12 hiljada milijardi dolara) dok su nase emisije stetnih gasova porasle samo za 1,6 odsto. Od 2005. i 2006. godine ekonomska stopa razvoja je porasla za 2.9 odsto ali su se emisije stetnih gasova smanjile za 1.5 odsto.

Politika Sjedinjenih Drzava o klimatskim promenama je deo sireg medjunarodnog razvojnog plana. Zapoceli smo i bili deo mnogih medjunarodnih inicijativa, kao na primer "Asia - Pacific Partnership on Clean Development" i "Climate and Methane Markets Partnership" koje resava problem klimatskih promena na nacin koji promovise ekonomski razvoj i pomaze zemljama da omoguce prosperitet svojim gradjanima. Kao rezultat ovih programa Sjedinjene Drzave su se sastale sa 17 ekonomski najrazvijenijih zemalja koje predstavljaju oko 80 odsto svetske ekonomije, potrosnje energije i emisije gasova s efektom staklene baste i sa Ujedinjenim nacijama na prvom sastanku o energetskoj sigurnosti i klimatskim promenama u septembru 2007. godine. Sjedinjene Drzave veruju da ovaj proces u kome ucestvuju ekonomski najrazvijenije zemlje moze da pomogne u radu Konferencije Ujedinjenih nacija o kontroli klime (UNFCCC).

Na konferenciji na Baliju cemo pazljivo saslusati ideje drugih i izneti svoja iskustva kako bi se postigao konsenzuz po pitanju "Bali mape" koja ce voditi medjunarodnu zajdenicu u naredne dve godine u oblasti klimatskih promena.

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