Your expectations on the climate-change gathering in the Polish city of Poznan attended by 9,000 officials and experts to discuss further steps.

Not much will come out of this except good intentions. The world leaders could not implement anything when they had spare money and, now they are flat broke, what will they do? Answer: nothing. VIN LOM

Makassar

Due to the global financial crisis, industrialized countries may be reluctant to provide funds to tackle global climate change.

I am pessimistic whether the conference can solve climate-change issues mainly in its implementation in the field. If climate change will continue, we will only see more frequent occurrences of drought, flooding and hurricanes in the world. ABDUL RAHIM

Tangerang

I hope they will produce concrete outcomes, but I think we also have to change our citizens' bad habits, such as throwing garbage in the rivers. BECKY

Medan, North Sumatra

When has any meeting regarding climate change produced concrete outcomes? The only outcome I see is finger-pointing and the start of the blame game between China and the United States.

These are in fact the two nations whose carbon footprints create such a big commotion among environmentalists and they keep playing the pointless game of butting heads against one another just to prove their nation isn't to blame. CANTIKA P.

Bandung

It is heartening to learn some 9,000 officials and experts are gathering in the Polish city of Poznan from Dec. 1 to 12 to discuss world action against climate change.

The executive secretary of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Yvo de Boer warned delaying action now would only make future action more costly. The world's keen effort to solve the present world economic crises will prove useless if the world we live in has become more hostile for most of us.

Making efforts to keep most of our rivers clean is one way to participate in the UNFCCC multiple activities. Let's wake up and participate. MOELJONO ADIKOESOEMO

Jakarta

I really hope those people will come up with something real because this kind of thing can't wait too long. DARMAWAN SUSANTO

Jakarta

I am optimistic they will produce concrete results to respond to the worsening global warming. IRASTARULLOH

Bandar Jaya, Lampung

I think ignorant people predominate in this world over those who are willing to save our planet. If only we could resurrect a prehistoric animal so it could tell us blatantly what it was like when Earth went through other bizarre climate changes.

Once climate change wiped out the entire dinosaur population. Perhaps that day will arrive again, though hopefully not in the near future, and all of us mammals will become extinct. ETTY SETYARSI

Bogor, West Java

I think the gathering will produce a great deal for climate-change solutions, but concrete gains still depend on mutual coordination and cooperation among all the world's people.

Since these problems arose because of people's collective reckless actions, our hope for a better world also rests on collective action from each and every one of us.

Let's use our own regular shopping bag instead of adding to the mountain of non-environmentally friendly plastic bags inside our kitchen drawers. TULUS

Jakarta

Of course the conference will contribute. I expect they will ratify a clear convention related to the subject. Not only should those officials and experts do something but we, all the citizens of this Earth, must wake up and participate in reducing the effects of climate change by taking meaningful steps. DANU

Metro, Lampung

The Poznan conference will simply waste more money. Carbon-based warnings are a myth perpetuated by the ill-informed and those whose livings depends on it. STEVE

Jakarta

We often see many lamps still on during the day in public places, houses and elsewhere. Is this the right way to save the Earth? AHMADI

Cilegon, Banten

I am pessimistic the meeting will produce concrete outcomes because the size of the hole in the ozone is already as big as Texas. With the current rate of deforestation, I think the polar ice caps will soon melt at an alarming rate, thereby causing many islands to disappear. However, the recent efforts of Greenpeace, when they blocked the shipload of crude palm oil headed out of Indonesia, have opened up our minds to how important it is to keep nature in balance. RUDY D. SALIM

Jakarta

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