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Warsaw Climate Change Conference - November 2013
Many expected the Warsaw Climate Change Conference to be a “Finance COP,” or an “Implementation COP.” Yet, by the end of the meeting, those wondering if COP 19 could be a “REDD+ COP” were ultimately proven correct. Parties approved a package of decisions, heralded by many as an overdue success, creating the Warsaw Framework for REDD+ that addresses a series of methodological questions, institutional arrangements, and results-based finance. COP 19 also reached relatively timid decisions on some issues, such as long-term finance, and loss and damage.