BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

DURBAN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE 2011: AN ASSESSMENT

Author: Benuka Ferdousi

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2012v33n1a4

ABSTRACT

Climate change can be termed as the greatest challenge of the 21stcentury as the very existence of human civilisation on the planet Earth is at stake. It is, therefore, imperative to assess the United Nations(UN)Climate Change Conferences in order to see how far the world leaders have progressed to work out a climate regime capable of avoiding irreversible and catastrophic change in climate. This paper aims to make an assessment of the latest UN Climate Change Conference which was held in 2011 in Durban, South Africa. Besides presenting the outcome of the conference, the paper attempts to underline the factors that led to this outcome and analyses the role of different countries in this regard. The paper argues that climate change is not merely an issue of natural science; rather it is very closely linked to global economic and political structures. Hence, what is happening in UN climate negotiations is are flection of global politics.