Two interesting Bali post mortems:

Tom Athanasiou, climate activist, author, and director of campaigning organisation EcoEquity, writes in Gristmill environmental news blog, expressing the view that "Bali was perhaps as great a success as could be expected under the shadow of today's Washington".

There's a slightly more negative analysis from an important, long-standing equity voice from the South, environmental activist Sunita Narain [listen to November 2007 BBC radio interview].

The title of her piece, "Bali: the mother of all no-deals", an editorial in online version of Down to Earth, a science and environment magazine in India, is apt, and there's no question that the final agreement at Bali could have been a lot better in many respects. However, her analysis leaves out an important gain developing countries achieved: climate change mitigation actions by developing countries will be contingent on "measurable, reportable and verfiable" funding from industrialised to developing countries. This sets an important precedent as one critical element of a fair overall post-2012 package.

Antonio Hill, Oxfam policy adviser on climate change