Doha 2012, this year's annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be held Monday, November 26th to Friday, December 7th 2012 at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, Qatar.

The central goal of Doha 2012 is to build upon the so-called "Durban Platform" agreed to at the end of UNFCCC conference in Durban, South Africa (Durban 2011). In Durban Governments agreed to establish a new legally binding agreement structure by 2015. A new binding agreement is not expected to be concluded at Doha 2012, but it is hoped discussions will help establish the framework for an agreement.

The European Union (EU), Australia, Norway, Switzerland and a handful of other countries are expected to sign up for a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol (a sub-agreement of the UNFCCC signed at the 1997 annual conference in Kyoto, Japan that set binding obligations on industrialized countries to reduce their emissions of GHGs). But earlier Kyoto Protocol signatories such as Canada, Russia, and Japan are refusing to sign-on for a second commitment period.

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