Experts Completing Final Climate Report

November 12, 2007 By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer

Experts to Complete Final Climate Report (AP)

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, center, with cabinet ministers and top officials ride during a campaign promoting the use of bicycles to reduce carbon emission ahead of U.N. conference on climate change, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007. Indonesia will host the conference next month on the island of Bali to decide the future course of the worldwide push to curb greenhouse gas emissions after the 2012 expiration of the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

(AP) -- The U.N.'s top climate official challenged world policymakers Monday to map out a path to curb climate change, charging that to ignore the urgency of global warming would be "nothing less than criminally irresponsible."



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