| Durban: Negotiating To Nowhere |
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The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 17) met in Durban in December 2011 to negotiate ways to drastically reduce emissions to keep the world safe from a catastrophic collapse. What they achieved at the end of several days of protracted negotiations was to push the world to yet another round of torturous and messy negotiations for a new treaty, protocol or legal instrument.