15 March 2012
Conference of the Parties
Report of the Conference of the Parties on its seventeenth session, held in Durban from 28 November to 11 December 2011
Addendum
Part Two: Action taken by the Conference of the Parties at its seventeenth session
Decision 1/CP.17 Establishment of an Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform forEnhanced Action. (click here)
The Conference of the Parties,
Recognizing that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet and thus requires to be urgently addressed by all Parties, and acknowledging that the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible cooperation by all countries and their participation in an effective and appropriate international response, with a view to accelerating the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions,
Noting with grave concern the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties’ mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C or 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels,
Recognizing that fulfilling the ultimate objective of the Convention will require strengthening of the multilateral, rules-based regime under the Convention,...
continued in next entry...
Conference of the Parties
Report of the Conference of the Parties on its seventeenth session, held in Durban from 28 November to 11 December 2011
Addendum
Part Two: Action taken by the Conference of the Parties at its seventeenth session
Decision 1/CP.17 Establishment of an Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform forEnhanced Action. (click here)
The Conference of the Parties,
Recognizing that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet and thus requires to be urgently addressed by all Parties, and acknowledging that the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible cooperation by all countries and their participation in an effective and appropriate international response, with a view to accelerating the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions,
Noting with grave concern the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties’ mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C or 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels,
Recognizing that fulfilling the ultimate objective of the Convention will require strengthening of the multilateral, rules-based regime under the Convention,...
continued in next entry...
