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The Doha Climate Change Conference was about moving toward adopting a universal climate agreement by 2015—rather than immediately raising ambition as demanded by many youths and NGOs. Delegates also arrived at COP 18 with the objective of adopting a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol and finally closing the door on the two Ad hoc Working Groups: the AWG-KP and AWG-LCA. Doha was also very much about the cost of addressing climate change and making progress on long-term funding to support action in developing countries, which is supposed to reach a level of USD 100 billion a year by 2020, as agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.  

MOP 24 adopted 14 substantive and 11 procedural decisions, including on: the review by the Scientific Assessment Panel (SAP) of RC-316c; procedural issues related to the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) and its subsidiary bodies; budget; and data and compliance issues. MOP 24 did not reach agreement on the draft decision on clean production of HCFC-22 through by-product emission control or on the draft decision to amend the Montreal Protocol to include hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).