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Environment ministers and delegates from 35 countries, including the United States, Russia, China, India and Australia, discussed a roadmap for the climate change conference in Bali in December, said an Indonesian official in Bogor on Wednesday.

The three-day informal meeting was opened by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday in a historical palace at the botanical garden in scenic Bogor town in the slope of Jakarta.

"(The meeting) will result a roadmap for Bali meeting," Environmental Minister Rahmat Witoelar said.

He said the roadmap would stress on the enforcement of global justice to improve the world from the damage caused by the carbon emission.

"The roadmap will stress on the global justice, in which the world climate has been damaged since long time ago, it was not by us, but one world community," he said.

Witoelar, who is also president of the United Nations framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) 13th Conference, said that developed countries must help developing countries in protecting their forest.

"Funds assistance, good will, capacity building and transfer technology from developed countries, (are useful) to make us be able to conduct mitigation," he said.

The head of Indonesian delegation Emil Salim said that the roadmap would put together the interests of the group of 77 countries, Arab countries, and the two developed countries which have not ratified Kyoto protocol, the united States and Australia.

The climate change conference was to be held from December 3 to15 in Bali, Indonesia.