There are, undoubtedly, many in Brussels who will breathe a sigh of relief at the decision of the Doha conference.
The Doha conference produced one advance for climate activists by establishing the principle that developed nations have a responsibility for compensating poorer ones for damage due to climate change.
Last week at the Doha climate conference, 200 nations agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020 and back in the US, a report showed that Americans installed a record-breaking 3.2 gigawatts of rooftop photovoltaic panels in 2012.
At a recent health and safety conference in Doha, the capital of Qatar, another expert spoke of a huge number of fire incidents that had not been properly investigated.
The March conference in Doha will be organised by CITES , the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, to which 175 countries are signatories.
"We are going ahead with the conference as scheduled in Doha, " Mike Moore, director general of the organisation (WTO), said.
Initiated and supported by Siemens, the social media-savvy Future Influencers debated the future of energy in the run-up to the COP18 UN Climate Conference which starts today in Doha, Qatar.
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Many low-lying nations have used the UN conference, which is currently under way in Doha, to call for a threshold temperature rise less than 2C, arguing that even a 2C rise will jeopardise their future.
December's WTO conference held in Hong Kong failed to complete the Doha Round, which has an Apr. 30 deadline.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged Qatar's influential role at a joint press conference with the country's prime minister in Doha last month.
The opening of the pilot plant is scheduled to coincide with the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference ( COP18) which this year takes place in Doha from November 26 to December 7.
"The Doha caravan seems to be lost in the sand, " he told a joint news conference.
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