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Security guards with a knife attempt to stop a Greenpeace activist 
flying a banner reading "coal kills climate" at the coal power station 
in Jepara, Central Java, Indonesia, 1 December 2007. The Bali UN 
Conference on climate change began on 3 December 2007.

Security guards with a knife attempt to stop a Greenpeace activist at an Indonesian coal power station, two days before the Bali UN climate conference starts.

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Bali couldn't be "just another meeting". Global warming is now a global emergency.

The Kyoto Protocol is pushing governments to take action on climate change. However, we need to make deeper emissions cuts by strengthening the Kyoto agreement in its second phase, which begins in 2012.

The second phase of Kyoto was at the centre of discussions in Bali. At the Bali UN Climate Conference, governments had to devise a road map to agreeing deep cuts in global greenhouse emissions. The challenges were to divert the energy juggernaut towards clean energy and to stop felling the world's forests for commodities such as palm oil. The Bali road map includes committments and actions for both developed and developing countries. Developed countries agreed to cut their emissions by 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020.

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It's a wrap: Life after Bali

It took blood, sweat and tears but the world has come to an agreement in Bali. So what's next?

We will be keeping up the post-Bali pressure on international governments with our actions on climate change. Here's a map of some of our 2007 climate actions:


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