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Indonesia plans to make ministers from around the world use bicycles to get about at the UN talks on climate change in Bali to help offset the event's carbon emissions.
Delegates from nearly 190 countries will gather on the resort island today to hammer out a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol, a pact to curb global warming that expires in 2012.
To help offset an estimated 47,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide expected to be emitted during the 12-day event, the Government will clear the conference site of cars and lay on about 200 bikes instead to help people move around the area, said Agus Purnomo, the meeting's executive chairman.
Mr Purnomo said the estimated emissions figure included carbon dioxide emitted by flights and by air conditioners.
More than 10,000 people including delegates, activists and journalists are expected to show up at hundreds of sessions.
- Reuters
