After a couple of troublesome, exciting and adventurous days in Shanghai, the long road from there to Beijing awaits us. On it, a new record wants to be celebrated: 30 000 solar powered road kilometers! We already got the fireworks ready, when suddenly something interferes
with our plans...Watch the video to find out what went wrong and how Louis Palmer got some confucian wisdom

China is really the country to take on new challenges! This is why I started to learn some Chinese... which is definitely harder than I thought... but nevertheless funny!

As we travelled further through China, the surprises didn t stop. We talked to Sven Tetzlaff, an expert on the field of renewable energies in China, and with Li Junfeng, who is something similar to a minister of renewable energies in China.

China - what is China? What can we expect from a country that is said to build a new coalplant each week? Our first impressions of the country are suprising. We are welcomed by a country that is working on solutions to global warming, and that realises that it has to happen quickly. The solartaxi is fully acknowledged as one of the solutions, and was greatly welcomed.

The Solartaxi reaches Melbourne, where it is part of the Sustainable Living Festival in the centre of Federation Square. But it is not the only fuel efficient car, nor the only unusual guest! Watch the video to find out more.

Over the last month we have followed the route of Louis Palmer and his Solar Taxi as it travels on the Asian part of its trip around the world. It has travelled from the banks of the Ganges river in Varanasi, to the strife-torn Bihar region and the colourful streets of Calcutta. Finally, we are special guests at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Bali.Just before the taxi boarded the Rainbow Warrior on its oversea trip to its next stop, it took some special guests for a test drive. These included the Australian Minister of the Environment, Peter Garret, and Chair of the World Future Council, Bianca Jagger. And ironically, our Video series ends just as it began, with a lift for Nobel prize winner Dr Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Take a look at the last part of the Bali Diary. Next stop.....New Zealand.Watch video here

And more newsFollowing the conclusion of the conference, Bianca Jagger and the World Future Council issued a press release voicing their concerns at the outcome. Here is a snippet... .
Bianca Jagger said
“Leaders of the industrialised nations present in Bali have failed in their moral duty. They have used the US’s decision not to sign any specific carbon emissions reduction treaty as an excuse for their own inaction.”
The World Future Council supports Al Gore’s suggestion that world leaders should sideline the US and forge ahead to Copenhagen in 2009, with or without US commitment.
Bianca Jagger said, “This clearly demonstrates what the World Future Council is advocating. If we are serious about averting climate change catastrophe, we must think in revolutionary terms, and transform our way of life, restoring rather than destroying life on earth. We must embark upon a global renewable energy revolution: if we are to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2020, we must replace our carbon-driven economy with a renewable, carbon-absorbing energy economy.”
For more info and the entire press releases and speeches go to the World Future Council site.

The first week of the Bali conference has passed, yet most of the decision makers have still not arrived. I walked around and randomly asked delegates, scientists, NGO representatives and activists, who were all taking part in this conference, what their
hopes and expectation were for the summit.Watch the latest video here. following my travels with Louis Palmer and the solartaxi .