The Targets of the Copenhagen Accord and the Cancun and Durban Agreements

Abstract

Adopted in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)—or simply the Convention —today has nearly universal membership, with 195 parties. However, it was only after 1997, when the Kyoto Protocol was approved, that its implementation started. Foreseeing the end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, in 2005 the Convention agreed on a new negotiation platform, the Bali Action Plan, which should go beyond the first commitment period. (…)