UNFCCC / COP-17: Long Negotiations Produce a Climate Roadmap

The UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, included the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol; the res...

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Published in:Environmental policy and law 2012-02, Vol.42 (1), p.15
Main Author: Aguilar, Soledad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Conferences
Developing countries
Emissions
Environmental policy
Flexibility
Greenhouse effect
Industrialized nations
International
Kyoto Protocol
LDCs
Negotiations
Working groups
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Summary:The UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, included the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol; the resumed 14th session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention; the resumed 16th session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol; and the 35th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice. The conference resulted in the adoption of a new negotiation process -- the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action -- that includes mitigation by all countries; and a decision to establish a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol whereby European countries will translate their mitigation pledges into quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives.
ISSN:0378-777X
1878-5395