The road to Durban and beyond: the progress of international climate change negotiations
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v8i2.4416Keywords:
conference of the parties (COP17), UNFCCC (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Kyoto Protocol, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Clean Development Mechanism, economy-wide mitigation commitments, Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (DPA)Abstract
Following a familiar pattern of UN climate change negotiations, the 2011 Durban conference of the parties (COP17) was concluded by sleep-deprived delegates well after its scheduled end, after crises and last-minute drama. Just what it might mean for the future was not immediately obvious to observers. Early reactions ranged from seeing yet another failure by governments to grasp the seriousness and urgency of climate change – ‘a disaster for us all’ – to much more positive assessments. The executive secretary of the UNFCCC (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Christiana Figueres, described Durban as ‘without doubt … the most encompassing and furthest reaching conference in the history of the climate change negotiations’.
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