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Doha Climate Summit outcomes

12.12.2012

The 195 parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved a complex package called “The Doha Climate Gateway” at December’s UN Climate Change Conference - Conference of the Parties (COP 18) in Doha, Qatar. The Doha Gateway, while setting no new targets, marks a second phase with a new commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol to cut fossil fuel emissions by industrialized nations from 2013 to 2020. It also endorsed the establishment of new institutions and agreed ways and means to deliver scaled-up climate finance and technology to developing countries The meeting came under fire from some quarters.

Climate Action Network, a coalition of more than 700 civil society organisations, claimed the Doha talks had “done nothing to cut emissions that are taking the world to four degrees and more of warming” and offered little in terms of finance to help poor countries cope with climate change,

The second Mountain Daywas held on the sidelines of the conference in a bid to bring attention to the vulnerability of mountain ecosystems and people to the impacts of climate change and offer solutions to UNFCCC negotiators on adaptation and mitigation actions. The Mountain Partnership Secretariat/FAO produced an animated video with financial help from the World Bank to highlight the vulnerability of mountains to climate change: http://youtu.be/IdCsymnecnU

More information: http://unfccc.int/files/press/press_releases_advisories/application/pdf/pr20120812_cop18_close.pdf

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