G20 host Indonesia urges cooperation to tackle global climate issues

Senior officials from the Group of 20 major (G20) economies met for climate talks on the resort island of Bali on Wednesday, 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”.
The G20 climate meeting comes as extreme weather events – fires, floods and heatwaves – pummel 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 on Wednesday.