Asian leaders joined the United Nations on Wednesday in calling for developing countries to take greater responsibility for fighting climate change by pursuing more environmentally friendly poverty-alleviation strategies.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian president, Kevin Rudd, Australia’s prime minister, and Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s prime minister, told the opening of the high-level section of the UN’s climate change conference in Bali that it was imperative to find a global solution to the crisis.