From the text of the 2015 agreement:
...decision 1/CP.17 (click here) on the establishment of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action,
The Climate platforms are nearly as difficult to understand as the science itself. So, I will try to make sense of it.
The Conference of the Parties (click here) serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, Recalling Articles 5, 7 and 8 of the Kyoto Protocol, Also recalling decisions 2/CMP.6, 2/CMP.7, 3/CMP.7, 4/CMP.7, 1/CMP.8 and 2/CMP.8, Being aware of decisions 11/CMP.1, 13/CMP.1, 15/CMP.1, 16/CMP.1, 18/CMP.1, 19/CMP.1 and 27/CMP.1, 1. Decides that, for the purpose of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and pending the entry into force of the Doha Amendment, contained in decision Annex I to 1/CMP.8, any references in this decision and decision 2/CMP.8 to Annex A, Annex B, Article 3, paragraphs 1 bis, 1 ter, 1 quater, 7 bis, 7 ter, 8, 8 bis, 12 bis and 12 ter, and Article 4, paragraphs 2 and 3, unless otherwise specified, shall be understood as referring to those Articles and Annexes as contained in the Doha Amendment, and that, upon the entry into force of the Doha Amendment, such references shall be read as references to the relevant Articles of the Kyoto Protocol as amended;...
CMP shows up as supporting and inclusive documents. CMP is Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
The climate has been a concern for a very long time. I am sure everyone remembers the Kyoto Protocols.
...decision 1/CP.17 (click here) on the establishment of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action,
The Climate platforms are nearly as difficult to understand as the science itself. So, I will try to make sense of it.
The Conference of the Parties (click here) serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, Recalling Articles 5, 7 and 8 of the Kyoto Protocol, Also recalling decisions 2/CMP.6, 2/CMP.7, 3/CMP.7, 4/CMP.7, 1/CMP.8 and 2/CMP.8, Being aware of decisions 11/CMP.1, 13/CMP.1, 15/CMP.1, 16/CMP.1, 18/CMP.1, 19/CMP.1 and 27/CMP.1, 1. Decides that, for the purpose of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and pending the entry into force of the Doha Amendment, contained in decision Annex I to 1/CMP.8, any references in this decision and decision 2/CMP.8 to Annex A, Annex B, Article 3, paragraphs 1 bis, 1 ter, 1 quater, 7 bis, 7 ter, 8, 8 bis, 12 bis and 12 ter, and Article 4, paragraphs 2 and 3, unless otherwise specified, shall be understood as referring to those Articles and Annexes as contained in the Doha Amendment, and that, upon the entry into force of the Doha Amendment, such references shall be read as references to the relevant Articles of the Kyoto Protocol as amended;...
CMP shows up as supporting and inclusive documents. CMP is Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
The climate has been a concern for a very long time. I am sure everyone remembers the Kyoto Protocols.
The Kyoto Protocol (click here) is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.
Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities."
The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. The detailed rules for the implementation of the Protocol were adopted at COP 7 in Marrakesh, Morocco, in 2001, and are referred to as the "Marrakesh Accords." Its first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012....
