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emissions, declared the agreement to draft a trea- ty requiring the decrease of GHG emissions and other environment safe-guarding methods a sign of progress since negotiations broke down over a similar agreement at the 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
The Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropou- los of the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency that oversees maritime safety, security, and pollution, also praised the adoption of the Durban Platform. He said that the Durban Conference “achieved further commit- ments under the Kyoto Protocol, agreed a pro- cess leading to a new legally binding agreement instrument and put in place mechanisms to give effect to the high-priority issues” such as issues “related to technology, adaptation and climate fi- nance” as established at the Cancun Conference.
While groups like Greenpeace and the Union of Concerned Scientists laud the Conference’s un- expected success at creating these proposals, these same organizations do not think the confer- ence accomplished enough. For example, execu- tive director of Friends of the Earth, Andy Atkins, said that the current targets of GHG emissions set by participants are not enough as the “poor- est people around the globe are already facing the impacts of climate change.” Environmental activists and many countries hope that the Dur- ban Platform makes the proposals at the Durban Conference a reality and that countries will follow through with their agreements to reduce the pos- sibility of global warming. The next UN Climate Change Conference will take place at the end of 2012 in Qatar.
*Submitted by Dominique de Vastey .
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