By Bae Ji-sook Staff Reporter Environment Minister Lee Kyoo-yong said Monday that the country will not accept a compulsory greenhouse gas emission reduction plan such as the Kyoto Protocol. Instead, he said he will ask for more efforts for additional gas reductions by the so-called developed countries at the 13th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held at Bali, Indonesia from Dec. 3-14. Korea has long been considered as one of the fastest economically developing countries and its greenhouse gas emission increased by 90 percent between 1990 and 2004. There is wide speculation that the country will be classified as one that must reduce emissions from 2012, when the first designated period of the Kyoto Protocol ends and another for ``developing countries'' is added to Annex 1. Lee, however, said he welcomes the global effort to work for climate change but it should be creative and more flexible. The Korean delegation from the environment, commerce, industry and energy and foreign affairs ministries will disclose its five-year roadmap to prepare for the post-2012 era. How much gas emission should be reduced after 2012 by developed countries, whether developing countries' emission should be limited, and providing aid to underprivileged countries in case of climate disasters are expected to emerge as main issues at the Bali convention. The convention is expected to seek measures for the post 2012 era especially. According to the Kyoto Protocol, by 2012, 36 countries are obliged to reduce their greenhouse gas emission to 5.2 percent of the amount of emission in 1990. Currently there are 151 countries signed up and more countries are expected to be added to the list. However, despite international awareness toward climate change, there are still some countries taking the lion's share in emissions which are taking a reluctant attitude toward regulating their emissions. The United States has denounced the Kyoto Protocol and called for free reduction rather than compulsory compliance. China and India, both fast growing economies, have shown reluctance to reductions claiming most of the already emitted gas that has caused climate change was from developed countries. In September, Song Min-soon, minister of foreign affairs and trade, visited the United States to meet representatives of the U.S., India, Japan, EU and other countries and said the ``Kyoto Protocol has some critical faults and there needs to be more efficient measures to back the pact,'' indicating the nation's position. bjs@koreatimes.co.kr