International. With the aim of slowing the pace of global warming, a program was agreed that includes binding actions to force large polluting countries to adopt severe measures. The agreement was made during the United Nations climate change conference in Durban, South Africa.
At the event, which lasted more than two weeks, some of the 190 countries in attendance reached agreement on four important elements. The first has to do with extending the Kyoto Protocol in a second period from 1 January 2013 to the end of 2017. There was also an agreement to extend it for five more years, from 2015 to 2020, but it is still being investigated how to adjust it to current European legislation. In that sense, and at the request of the European Union (EU) and the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis), a work plan was launched to help identify the possibilities of closing "the ambition gap" that exists between the current commitments to reduce emissions by 2020 and the goal of keeping global warming below two degrees Celsius. A second issue was to design a Green Climate Fund through which a maximum of US $ 100,000 million is channeled in 2020 for developing countries, and although the origin of that sum was not established, the proposal to generate money through a tax on international maritime transport for carbon emissions was heard. however it had more opposition than favorability and was discarded. Thirdly and fourthly, a mandate was agreed for all nations to sign a pact in 2015 that will force them to lower their greenhouse gas emissions and a work agenda for next year. Find here the final texts of the Conference.
