The verdicts are starting to trickle in on the recent Bali climate change conference agreement and here is a look at a few…

Globe & Mail: In the end, the much-anticipated “Bali Road Map” was disappointingly vague and unenforceable, weakened by politics and self-interest. Yet beyond the words of its compromised text, the Bali agreement could still herald a new era of tougher action against global warming.

New York Times: In Bali, where delegates from 187 countries met to begin framing a new global warming treaty, America’s negotiators were in full foot-dragging mode, acting as spoilers rather than providing the leadership the world needs.

Manila Times: AT first blush, the four-page Bali Action Plan produced by the two-week Dec. 3-24, 2007 United Nations climate conference in Indonesia looks like an innocuous document full of verbiage and technical jargon signifying nothing. For a while, it looked like the Bali conference was going to be an event for “climate tourists”—a pejorative term for delegates to the conference (there were more than 10,000 from 187 countries) who do nothing and commit nothing but to gawk at the beauty of the venue and the idiosyncrasies of its natives. Yet, Bali is seen as a major move forward in the world’s battle against climate change or global warming.

Bloomberg: The U.S. and China, the world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change, have two years to resolve differences blocking a new agreement to help slow the planet’s warming. After two weeks of talks concluding with three sleepless nights for negotiators, a scolding from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, and public tears from the conference head, the 187 nations meeting on Bali in Indonesia agreed on a document setting a 2009 deadline for a new treaty to limit gas emissions. The existing accord, the Kyoto Protocol, runs out in 2012.

And of course, there are many, many more.