* 190 nations to meet on climate tomorrow
* Deal sought on warming within two years
* 10,000 delegates meet in Bali for week of talks
ABOUT 190 nations begin talks on the Indonesian island of Bali tomorrow to build on a "fragile understanding" that the fight against global warming needs to be expanded to all nations with a deal in 2009.
The December 3 to14 meeting, involving more than 10,000 delegates in a tightly guarded idyllic beach resort, will seek to launch negotiations meant to end with a UN new pact in two years' time including outsiders led by the US and China.
So far, only 36 industrialised nations in the Kyoto Protocol have caps on greenhouse gas emissions running to 2012. However, bleak UN reports this year warning of more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas have said global curbs are needed fast.
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