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Durban Climate Agreement: The Morning After
D.Raghunandan, Newsclick, Dec. 23, 2011
Finally, after many climate summits aimed at negotiating a global compact to succeed the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, the seventeenth Conference of Parties (COP 17) at Durban has arrived at an agreement.
Rhetoric Hides Failure in Durban: UPA's Bankrupt Climate Diplomacy
Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, Dec. 22, 2011
The current phase of climate change negotiations have now come to an end with the Durban Platform announcement of a new round of negotiations to arrive at a legally binding commitments for all countries by 2015, and implementation starting from 2020.
Leaked UN Report Shows Cuts Offered at Copenhagen Would Lead to 3C rise
guardian.co.uk, December 18, 2009
With the talks entering the final 24 hours on a knife-edge, the emergence of the document seriously undermines the statements by governments that they are aiming to limit emissions to a level ensuring no more than a 2C temperature rise over the next century, and indicates that the last day of negotiations will be extremely challenging.




