More than 180 nations will meet on Monday in Bali, Indonesia to establish a strategy to fight against the global warming.

According to Yvo de Boer, the United Nations' chief climate official, the conference in Bali will open "crucial international negotiations" in order to replace the Kyoto climate accord which was signed 10 years ago, USA Today reports.

The pact said that 36 of the largest industrialized countries should reduce the gases that trigger the global warming to a level 5% below 1990 emissions, and to do it by 2012. Since the agreement will expire at the end of 2012, the talks in Bali are to draft a plan that has to be finished by 2009 for other cuts that will have to be done during this century.

The largest emitter of such gases, the U.S. signed the treaty but it was never ratified by the Congress. In 2001 President George W. Bush renounced the treaty, on grounds that it could hurt the U.S. economy while other developing nations don’t have the same limits.

Soon the largest greenhouse emitter place will be taken by China, whose economic expansion relies on burning large amounts of fossils fuels, which emit carbon dioxide, the largest human-caused greenhouse gas.

The White House announced this week the fall of the carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 % last year.

Participants at the conference will include American stars that are not part of the official team.

Former vice president Al Gore will attend the conference. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize for work on global warming in 2007.

Also attending will be California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger who set emission limits in his own state.

Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, will address in the conference. At a meeting in Seattle which he attended this month, he said that it is time for the United States "to re-establish its leadership on all issues of international importance, including climate change."

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change released several reports this year in which there were predictions of rising ocean levels, droughts, heat waves, storms and other effects triggered by the warming of the atmosphere. 

This week U.N. released a report in which there were warnings regarding the conditions in the poorest countries in the worlds, which are the most vulnerable to the climate change and how these conditions could worsen if the developed countries don’t cut greenhouse gas emissions.