The Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa which concluded on December 11 managed to work out a compromise which, seemingly, did not satisfy any of the participants.
The 17th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 17), to give the confab its official name, brought together representatives from the world's governments, international organizations and the ‘civil society’ sector.
The conference decided, after intense argument, to extend the Kyoto Protocol, giving time to First World countries until COP 18 in Qatar next year to submit their emissions reduction targets within its framework. It also set up a working group to negotiate a binding agreement - to be effective by 2020 - covering all countries by 2015.
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