Outcomes of the Cancun Conference

摘要

The 2010 UN Climate Change Conference had the unwieldy task of bringing multilateral climate negotiations back on track further to the Copenhagen debacle in 2009. The meeting included 194 parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol who negotiated during two weeks in an effort to adopt global medium-term mitigation targets post-2012. The Parties at the meeting succeeded in reaching a set of decisions, collectively known as the Canctin agreements. Despite portraying a low level of ambition, in contrast with the urgency of the matter proclaimed by science, the Canciin agreements are widely expected to allow the process to move forward within the multilateral arena.