agreement on a program mapping out
agreed to start negotiations
Nothing firm, nothing legal, nothing really accomplished. After spending millions for a conference and quite a bit of drinking, prostitution, bestiality, and other recreation they had to have something to say to their followers.
“Durban Platform” — sounds like the greenie-weenies realized the most they could hope for was a “platform” for continued propaganda campaigns..... they could not come away with Durban with nothing in hand, but at least this does not seem to make for any binding commitments on anyone.
Kyoto will expire with nothing ‘real’ to replace it, I suspect.
The US and Canada will not sign on (let’s hope!), China and India will not make any concessions, and EU publics will start to figure out that nothing they do can really affect “the problem” even if all is as the greenies perceive it. The whole b.s. will continue to unravel gradually because the UN types cannot allow any explicit acknowledgement that CAGW is b.s. and has always been b.s.