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After a two-day deadlock, the Bali climate change talks finally agreed on a framework that requires rich countries to make measurable commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. It's called the Bali Roadmap and it will be the basis for negotiations on a post-Kyoto agreement.

Presenter - Ashley Hall
Speaker - rofessor Phillip Jennings, renewable energyand climate change teacher and researcher, Murdoch University, Perth; James Ensor, policy director, Oxfam Australia; Steve Campbell, head of campaigns, Greenpeace Australia

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Japan, Australia, Canada and the US have been accused of stalling by refusing to agree to cut their short term emissions. That position has thrown a bucket of cold water on the Kyoto protocol's ten year birthday party.

Presenter - Linda Lopresti
Speaker - Nobuo Tanaka, head of the International Energy Agency; Kimiko Hirata from the Kiko Network in Japan; Alden Meyer from the American Union of Concerned Scientists; Marcelo Furtado, Greenpeace.

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As the Bali talks hot up, delegates, governments and participants continue to jockey for position. But on Monday the talks heard from those who will inherit the consequences of global warming - children.

Presenter - Linda Lopresti
Speaker - Hazel Candelario, student from Philippines; Baltazar Tribunalo, Philippines program adviser for Child Centre Disaster, Risk, Reduction and Response; Eni Andrayani, student from Indonesia; Hanna Sundawil, student from Sweden

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It's ten years today since the Japanese city of Kyoto became the focal point for the historic decision by some countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions. It's perhaps ironic then that Japan, along with Canada and the United States is being accused of wanting to water down the text of the final UN declaration from climate talks currently underway in Bali.

Presenter - Sarah Clarke
Speaker - Peter Garrett, Australia's Environment Minister; US Senator John Kerry.

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The UN's top climate official says developing countries are unlikely to agree to binding emission reductions while Australia enjoys a licence to increase its emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Australia negotiated a special deal at Kyoto which allows it to increase its 1990 emissions by eight percent. Most other industrialised countries have had to cut their greenhouse pollution.

Presenter - Jennifer Macey
Speaker - Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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In Indonesia, final preparations are underway for the major United Nations climate change meeting opening later today on the island of Bali. Delegations from more than 180 countries are there, to negotiate the next round of the Kyoto Protocol, aimed at reducing the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

Presenter - Sarah Clarke
Speaker - John Connor from Australia's Climate Institute; Don Henry, Australian Conservation Foundation; CSIRO scientist Steve Hatfield Dobbs

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World leaders meet in Bali next month to work out the framework for a new agreement on climate change. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said he wants to position Indonesia as a leading force among developing nations, to cut greenhouse gas emissions. He's proposing a carbon trading scheme, where developed countries pay poorer nations, to provide a financial incentive to end deforestation.

Presenter - Joanna McCarthy
Speaker - World Bank spokesman for Indonesia Tim Brown; Indonesian Environment spokeswoman Amanda Katili