Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind A/RES/67/210 events, sea-level rise, coastal erosion and ocean acidification, further threatening food security and efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development, and in this regard emphasizes that adaptation to climate change represents an immediate and urgent global priority; Recognizes the need to build on the existing political momentum with a 3. view to achieving the ultimate objective of the Convention and to further advancing climate change negotiations; Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the United Nations 4. Framework Convention on Climate Change on the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban; 16 5. Notes with appreciation that the Government of Qatar hosted the eighteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in Doha from 26 November to 8 December 2012; Registers its encouragement to Member States to approach the United 6. Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha with a view to achieving an ambitious, substantive and balanced outcome, building on the progress made through the Bali Action Plan 17 and the decisions adopted at Cancun, Mexico, 18 and Durban, South Africa,15 accelerating progress towards the full implementation of those decisions through the ongoing negotiations at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, consistent with the mandates of and decisions on the three tracks of negotiations, and further developing and implementing the new processes and institutions agreed in the Cancun and Durban decisions; Notes the significant political momentum towards adopting the second 7. commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol14 as a key deliverable at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha; 8. Takes note of the decision, adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its seventeenth session, to launch a process to develop a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all parties, through a subsidiary body under the Convention known as the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action; 19 9. Also takes note of the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention that the Ad Hoc Working Group shall complete its work as early as possible, but no later than 2015, in order to adopt the protocol, legal instrument or agreed outcome with legal force at the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties and for it to come into effect in and be implemented as from 2020;19 10. Further takes note of the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention that the Ad Hoc Working Group shall plan its work in the first half of 2012, including on mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology development and _______________ 16 A/67/295, sect. I. FCCC/CP/2007/6/Add.1, decision 1/CP.13. 18 At the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the sixth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, held in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010 (see FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1 and 2). 19 FCCC/CP/2011/9/Add.1, decision 1/CP.17. 17 3/4