
Take more responsibility for your personal carbon footprint.
Fly less.
Use video link-ups, instead of flying to conferences in exotic places.
Sound familiar?
All advice you can expect from many governments on how we should all roll up our sleeves in the fight against climate change.
But over the next two weeks some 10,000 delegates including representatives from 186 governments, up to 2,000 journalists (including me) and members of 130 non-governmental organisations descend on Bali, Indonesia.
They’re attending a two-week conference to kick-start two years of talks to agree a new, tougher, sharper climate change regime to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
But why Bali?
Indonesia’s environment ministry estimates that the event will produce 47,000 tonnes of the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, carbon dioxide.
If it had to be Indonesia, why not Jakarta, instead of forcing 10,000 people to take connecting flights?
Have the sponsor, the United Nations, made a PR gaffe by hosting a climate change event on a beautiful tropical paradise island at the Westin Resort, pictured above and below, which also happens to be miles from anywhere?
Tell us what you think. (BTW these are my photos, taken today)

Should 10,000 people fly to Bali to fight climate change?
Posted by Gerard Wynn in Sunday, December 2nd 2007
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