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
India is quite aware to the danger of climate change and increase in GHG emission. India has already declared that even as it pursues its social and economic development objectives. It will not allow its per capita GHGs emissions (1.1 tones) to exceed the average per capita emission of the developed countries. India has also declared to bring its carbon intensity to 20-25% of 2005 base level by 2020. India has also proposed REDD+ mechanism. India has also come up with an ambitious proposal that major developing and developed nations set up a network of research and development initiations under the name of CLEAN NET which would specialize in technological innovation in the field of climate change.
India has been trying to take comprehensive measures to combat climate change with an ambitious National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) adopted in June 2008, which includes 8 core national missions; it is also enhancement of ecological sustainability of India’s development path and addressing climate mitigation and adaptation. These missions are
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