Prime Minister's speech on climate change

Kevin Rudd's speech at the High Level Segment of the 13th Conference of the Parties of the United nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Bali, Indonesia emphasised Australia's historical role in the United Nations and the need for a shared global emissions goal.

"We expect all developed countries to embrace a further set of binding emissions targets – and we need this meeting at Bali to map out the process and timeline in which this will happen.

And we need developing countries to play their part – with specific commitments to action.

And we need all developed nations, all developed nations – those within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol, and those outside the framework – to embrace comparable efforts in order to bring about the global outcomes the people of the world now expect of us.

The approach we take must be comprehensive and must incorporate critical challenges, including deforestation."