The recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban included the twin-track Convention and Protocol negotiations entitled the 17th Conference of Parties (COP-17), and the 7th Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP-7). This report summarises the key subjects under discussion from these meetings: adaptation, mitigation, capacity building, technology, finance, REDD+, and the flexibility mechanisms: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Joint Implementation (JI), and emissions trading. It discusses some of the issues under debate and their subsequent outcomes. It also includes a compilation of negotiating positions, emission reduction proposals or commitments, and financial pledges. Attention is then turned to other notable conclusions contained or missing from the Durban Package and a look to the road ahead in 2012 as Parties prepare for next year’s COP and CMP conference in Qatar.
