According to Ecologistas en Acción, the agreement arrived at in Bali to substitute the Kyoto Protocol from 2012 leaves too many doors open to inadequate and unjust solutions.

The Bali agreement should have included urgent concrete emission reduction targets of 25-40% by 2020 for industrialized countries. This would mean that the rise in temperature would most likely remain below the potentially dangerous 2oC mark.

Dubbed the Bali Roadmap, the agreement does not clearly define a reduction target range for developed countries, which bear most of the responsibility for climate change both past and present.
The document contains generic content which can easily be interpreted in an unproductively ambiguous way.

Once again, the situation remains unbalanced. Developing countries have taken the initiative and begun to take steps towards voluntary agreements in the future, proving that they more readily adopt the principle of “shared but differentiated responsibility” than industrialized countries do.

Achievements

Among the positive aspects of the agreement, we should highlight the advances achieved in the Adaptation Fund which addresses the problems of adapting to the effects of climate change; averted Deforestation and the conservation and degradation of forests as a way of reducing emissions by this sector by 20%; the Deployment of technologies to developing and impoverished countries in order to ensure that their development is clean and sustainable; and finally the recognition of the IPCC´s work in their 4th Report published in 2007.

2009 Agreement

Ecologists in Action maintains that a better world is necessarily a more just world in which all of its inhabitants enjoy the same rights, including the right to make use of clean and sufficient energy for their human development. The path towards such a better world includes the premise that all citizens emit the same quantity of Greenhouse Gases. In order to achieve both of these objectives, there are two actions which must be taken urgently and independently. Firstly, that access to clean technology is provided to less fortunate citizens; and secondly, that there is a drastic reduction in the emissions of industrialized countries in their own territories.