2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference

United Nations Climate Change Conference COP18/CMP8
Date(s)	26 November 2012 (2012-11-26)– 8 December 2012 (2012-12-08)
Location(s)	Doha, Qatar
Previous event	← Durban 2011
Next event	Warsaw 2013 →
Participants	17,000
Website	www.cop18.qa/en-us/ United Nations UNFCCC Page

The 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference was the 18th yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 8th session of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP) to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (the protocol having been developed under the UNFCCC's charter). The conference took place from Monday 26 November to Saturday 8 December 2012, at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha.^[1]

The conference reached an agreement to extend the life of the Kyoto Protocol, which had been due to expire at the end of 2012, until 2020, and to reify the 2011 Durban Platform, meaning that a successor to the Protocol is set to be developed by 2015 and implemented by 2020. The wording adopted by the conference incorporated for the first time the concept of "loss and damage", an agreement in principle that richer nations could be financially responsible to other nations for their failure to reduce carbon emissions.^[2]