Beijing  - Asian and European leaders plan to call for new goals to fight climate change up to 2012 to be agreed by the end of next year, according to a draft summit statement seen Friday.

"Leaders welcomed the substantial progress made at the climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007," said the draft "chair's statement" from the biannual Asia-Europe Meeting, which opened Friday.

"They confirmed their commitment to securing an ambitious, effective and comprehensive agreed outcome now, up to and beyond 2012, by the end of 2009 on the basis of the Bali road map," said the draft, which is scheduled to be issued on Saturday at the close of the summit.

The 27 EU and 16 Asian nations also plan to issue a separate joint statement on Saturday committing them to comprehensive reform of global financial systems.

Officials said earlier that the European Union would push in Beijing for "the maximum commitment we can get" from Asia on signing up to a post-Kyoto Protocol deal on climate change at talks in Copenhagen in December 2009. (dpa)