Rocky start on road to Durban

摘要

Despite relief that the Cancun UN climate conference in December 2010 resulted in a set of broad agreements (ENDS Report 431, pp 6-7), there has been slow progress on designing the financing arrangements needed to secure a global settlement on tackling climate change. Progress in other key areas, aimed at paving the way to a successor treaty after the first Kyoto Protocol commitment period expires in 2012, has also been patchy so far. One task for 2011 set out at Cancun, Mexico, was to elaborate the financial, technological and capacity-building mechanisms agreed by nations.