Options for the Paris agreement under the Durban Platform process: Results of a 2015 online questionnaire survey

The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Durban, South Africa, in November–December 2011 reached a decision known as the Durban Platform. It launched “a new process to develop a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the UNFCCC,” which would be “applicable to all Parties.” The process was to be completed as early as possible, but no later than 2015, so that the new instrument could come into effect and be implemented by 2020...