Melbourne: Warning that there was no other planet to escape, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has asked all developed nations, both inside as well as outside the framework of the Kyoto Protocol, to "embrace comparable efforts" to deal with the climate change.

"We need all developed nations those within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol and those outside to embrace comparable efforts," Rudd said, apparently referring to the US, the only advanced economy outside the UN climate treaty.

"There is no plan B, there is no other planet any of us can escape to," he said in his first international address as Prime Minister at the UN climate change conference in Bali.

"I believe that climate change is now one of the greatest moral and economic challenges of our time," he said, adding "Australia now stands ready to assume its responsibility in responding to this challenge - both at home and in the negotiations that lie ahead across the community of nations." In his speech, Rudd indirectly pushed the US to play a stronger role in addressing global warming.

"We must now move forward as a truly united nations with developed and developing countries working in parallel," he said, ABC radio reported today.

However, Australia does not support short-term global emissions targets and the text in the draft declaration has already been softened.

The initial wording of the UN's draft declaration said developed countries are "required "to cut global emissions by up to 40 per cent by 2020. The watered-down draft now says developed countries are "considering the indicative range".

Source : PTI