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468:, who opposes government energy regulations such as cap-and-trade and has called man-made climate change a hoax, cheered what he called the setting aside of "any remote possibility of a UN global warming treaty" and described the conference outcome as "the complete collapse of the global warming movement and the failure of the Kyoto process". Inhofe said that the message from Washington, including from President Obama and the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate, to the delegates of the conference was that they are being ignored. 324:
India will never be intimidated by any threat or any kind of pressure. What's this legal instrument? How do I give a blank cheque? We're talking of livelihoods and sustainability here. I'm not accusing anybody, but there are efforts to shift the (climate) problem to countries that have not contributed to it. If that is done, we're willing to reopen the entire Durban Package. We did not issue a threat. But are we being made into a scapegoat? Please don't hold us hostage.
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and development organisations, have all come together to call on COP17 negotiators to address the need for a Work Programme on agriculture", Campbell said. "Now, it is up to negotiators to heed our joint call-to-action and allow agriculture to play its part in building resilience amongst vulnerable populations, helping farmers adapt to more unpredictable and extreme weather conditions and mitigating future climate change".
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The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action was consequently established to conclude the shaping of the next climate regime, which must include the entire international community – including the United States and emerging countries – in the fight against global warming (unlike
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We have shown more flexibility than virtually any other country. But equity is the centrepiece, it cannot be shifted. This is not about India. Does fighting climate change mean we have to give up on equity? We have agreed to protocol and legal instrument. What's the problem in having one more option?
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in London, said: "The agreement here has not in itself taken us off the 4 °C path we are on... But by forcing countries for the first time to admit that their current policies are inadequate and must be strengthened by 2015, it has snatched 2 °C from the jaws of impossibility. At the same
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Nnimmo Bassey, Chair of Friends of the Earth International, said "delaying real action until 2020 is a crime of global proportions ... An increase in global temperatures of 4 degrees Celsius, permitted under this plan, is a death sentence for Africa, Small Island States, and the poor and vulnerable
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research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), said it was astonishing that agriculture, one of the worst emitters of greenhouse gases, remained excluded from global agreements on climate change. "Leading agricultural groups, from farmers and researchers to policymakers
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extended the mandates of the two temporary subsidiary bodies – the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the convention (AWG-LCA) – so they were expected to meet as well.
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After two weeks of negotiations a deal was reached only on the last day, Sunday 11 December, after a 60-hour marathon negotiation session. Negotiators agreed to be part of a legally binding treaty to address global warming. The terms of the future treaty were to be defined by 2015 and become
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issued a statement calling on conference participants to ensure a peak in global emissions by 2015, continue the Kyoto Protocol and provide a mandate for a comprehensive legally binding instrument, deliver climate finance and set up a framework for protecting forests in developing countries.
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stated that India "will not be intimidated. There is an attempt to shift the blame to developing countries. We do not accept that. Please do not hold us hostage. And please do not take our agreement to be weakness." Natarajan responded to European Union Climate Commissioner
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A primary focus of the conference was to secure a global climate agreement as the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period (2008–2012) was about to end. It was also expected to focus on "finalising at least some of the Cancun Agreements", reached at the
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effective in 2020. The agreement, referred to as the "Durban Platform for Enhanced Action", was notable in that for the first time it included developing countries such as China and India, as well as the US which had refused to ratify the
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and a member of the Youth Delegation, delivered a succinct speech that summed up the science regarding global warming and the failure of the UNFCCC negotiations to rein in climate change, demanding the UN "Get it done!"
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said: "Right now the global climate regime amounts to nothing more than a voluntary deal that's put off for a decade. This could take us over the 2 °C threshold where we pass from danger to potential catastrophe."
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the Kyoto Protocol, which only imposes binding reduction targets on countries listed in Annex I). The terms of the Durban Platform were ultimately met following the successful negotiation of the
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said: "I salute the countries who made this agreement. They have all laid aside some cherished objectives of their own to meet a common purpose, a long-term solution to climate change."
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to use their numerical superiority to adopt any kind of world-wide binding obligation, in practical terms they would still need the approval of rich countries to secure funding.
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The agreement entailed the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol in the interim, although only some countries including members of the EU were indicated as likely to commit.
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German media criticised the outcome as "almost useless", saying the pledges are vague and the timeline is slow, the main merit being that the talks have been kept alive.
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their own greenhouse gas emissions. He called on developed countries to provide financial and technical aid to help developing nations fight against and cope with the
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for which a management framework was adopted. The fund is to distribute US$ 100 billion per year to help poor countries adapt to climate impacts.
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worldwide. This summit has amplified climate apartheid, whereby the richest 1% of the world have decided that it is acceptable to sacrifice the 99%."
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time it has re-established the principle that climate change should be tackled through international law, not national, voluntarism."
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deal comprising all countries by 2015, which was to take effect in 2020. There was also progress regarding the creation of a
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The conference was officially referred to as the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties
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Xie said that he was concerned about the reluctance of developed nations to
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highlighted two contentious proposals which had been submitted – one by
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The conference led to agreement on a management framework for a future
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A treaty was not established, but the conference agreed to establish a
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Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
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Inhofe: 'Laughable' to call global warming a polar vortex factor
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Cooperative Mechanisms under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
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Post–Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions
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Negotiations must deliver a work programme on agriculture
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After the conference concluded, Michael Jacobs of the
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Index

template
Infobox recurring event
considered for merging

Durban
South Africa
← Cancún 2010
Doha 2012 →
UNFCCC
United Nations Climate Change Conference
Durban
legally binding
Green Climate Fund
Maite Nkoana-Mashabane
global warming

Ban Ki-moon
Jacob Zuma
Maite Nkoana-Mashabane
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol
2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference
2010 Conference
clean technology
adapt to climate
"green" their economies
BBC
Russia
Papua New Guinea
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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