Bikes for Ministers at UN Talks on Climate Change

Talk about focusing the attention of Government Officials. ;-D

This just in from Bali:

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, an Environment Ministry official said Friday, Reuters reported.

Delegates from nearly 190 countries will gather on the resort island on Monday to launch a concentrated effort 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 tons of carbon dioxide expected to be emitted during the 12-day event, the government will clear the conference site of cars and provide about 200 bikes instead to help people move around the area, said Agus Purnomo, the ministry official.

Um, hee, hee!;-D

A Tip of the Hat to Randy Eady, for giving me the heads up on this part of a larger article, by Matthew L. Wald, in the International Herald Tribune:

11/30/07 - Study details how U.S. could cut 28% of greenhouse gases.