G20 ministers meet to find solution to climate crisis
Senior officials from the Group of 20 major (G20) economies met for climate talks on the resort island of Bali, with host Indonesia warning that failure to work together to cut emissions would push the planet toward "unchartered territory".
Indonesia's Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said countries must jointly arrest global warming or see the planet pushed to a point "where no future will be sustainable".
"It is our responsibility to be part of the solution. We build bridges, not walls," she said.
The G20 climate meeting comes as extreme weather events - fires, floods and heat waves - pummelled several parts of the world, including unprecedented flooding in Pakistan in recent weeks that has killed at least 1,000 people.
Scientists say most such extreme weather events are attributable to human-caused climate change and will only increase in severity and frequency as the globe edges closer to the warming threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Environment officials from Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, South Korea, and U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry are attending the talks in Bali, and are expected to produce a joint communique later.
Also in attendance is Alok Sharma, president of last year's 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), who said the war in Ukraine had increased the urgency of a shift to renewable sources of energy.
