At the end of Doha Summit, UN members successfully agreed to an eight year extension for Kyoto protocol emission limits ensuring continuity until a new global climate deal are reached in 2020. But some signatories of the Kyoto Protocol such as Japan, Russia, Canada and New Zealand have opted out of the extended protocol for various reasons and since USA has never been a party to the protocol, the newly extended Kyoto emission limits only cover about 12-15 % of global emissions.
On the principle of loss and damage, agreements could not be reached at its financing and functioning. Also no action was taken to increase the under- funded Global Climate Fund.
Other issues at Doha Summit were just continuation or negotiations from Durban Summit.
India’s initiatives to reduce GHG emissions
