Indonesia wishes to see a fresh and superior set of agreements arise from a conference on climate change to be held in Bali in December.

The conference will seek to interlock all nations in tinkering with the Kyoto Protocol to assure the environmental accord's future, English daily The Jakarta Post reported Wednesday.

State Minister for the Environment Rachmat Witoelar was quoted by the newspaper as saying that the event was of great importance in responding to the alarming reports of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which foretells of the environmental implausibility of an inhabited world by around 2070.

"Now is the (time to gain) momentum. The UNFCCC reports pose an urgent pressure, under which, if states don't behave, we are all going to die," Rachmat said.

He said the upcoming Bali climate conference is expected to improve the Kyoto Protocol, the implementation of which is faltering despite it having come into effect in February 2005.

Ratified by 140 nations, the Kyoto Protocol aims at pushing developed nations to cut their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases blamed for global warming by 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

Rachmat said Indonesia, which has one of the world's fastest rates of deforestation, was key to mitigating global climate change through its ability to facilitate reforestation projects.

Source: Xinhua