The Kyoto Protocol, with its crucial distinction between developed and developing countries, was critically wounded in Copenhagen and has virtually been buried at Cancun. It may be predicted with some confidence that the Kyoto Protocol will be replaced at the next climate change conference in Durban by a single framework for all categories of nations.
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The "triumph" of Cancún's climate negotiations may be largely diplomatic, but the foundations for a new, low-carbon world are already being laid regardless.
Also highlighted the significance of small-holder JAIPUR: A delegation of non-government organisations assembled under the banner “Beyond Copenhagen” has returned here from Cancun, Mexico, after making interventions for bringing agricultural and food security issues to the mainstream climate negotiations at the 16 {+t} {+h} U.N. Climate Summit.
With an extension of the Kyoto Protocol appearing bleak and in absence of any legally binding commitment by the participating nations on mandatory carbon emission caps in the Cancun agreement at the annual UN climate talks, experts fear a crash in the carbon market, one which could make a tangible impact on India
There is not doubt that the world was meeting in Cancun with little or no expectations for a deal. At the last meeting in Copenhagen, the split between the industrialized world and the rest was still wide open.
