A major United Nations climate change conference opened on Indonesia's Bali on Monday, buoyed by the new Australian prime minister's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.
As delegates gathered to craft a road map for talks leading to a new pact addressing global warming, Kevin Rudd ratified the landmark UN treaty as his first official act after being sworn in as Australia's leader following elections last month.
The move by Rudd, who will also travel to Bali, leaves the United States -- the only advanced economy yet to ratify the protocol -- increasingly isolated as the world tries to hammer out a plan for when Kyoto expires in 2012.
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