GLOBAL WARMING
Climate change hope rests with Qatar meet
- Published: 23 Nov 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: News
We have learnt to expect surprises at UN climate change summits.
At Durban, a year ago, there was the unexpected, but welcome, agreement to begin negotiations on a new legally binding instrument involving all major emitters of greenhouse gases, to be finalised by 2015, and to take effect in 2020.
At Copenhagen and Cancun, in 2009 and 2010 respectively, negotiators, to the surprise of many, abandoned "Plan A" for an international emission control agreement in favour of "Plan B" (of the Danish Prime Minister) including 2020 "pledges" and an information exchange agreement between countries about emissions.
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