Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind A/RES/68/212 countries, are vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change and are already experiencing increased impacts, including persistent drought and extreme weather 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; 3. Recognizes the need to build on the existing political momentum, with a view to achieving the ultimate objective of the Convention and to further advancing climate change negotiations; 4. Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Doha from 20 November to 8 December 2012; 13 5. Notes that the parties to the Kyoto Protocol adopted decision 1/CMP.8 on the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; 14 6. Notes with appreciation the hosting by the Government of Poland of the nineteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in Warsaw from 11 to 22 November 2013; 7. Registers its encouragement to Member States to approach the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw with a view to achieving an ambitious, substantive and balanced outcome, building on the conclusion of the Bali Action Plan 15 and the decisions adopted at Cancun, Mexico, 16 Durban, South Africa, 17 and Doha, 12 and to accelerating progress towards the full implementation of those decisions through the ongoing negotiations, including at the nineteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol; 8. Takes note of decision 1/CP.18 of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its eighteenth session, 18 which, together with decisions adopted at its sixteenth and seventeenth sessions, constitutes the agreed outcome pursuant to its decision 1/CP.13; 9. Also takes note of the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention that parties will urgently work towards the deep reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions required to hold the increase in the global average temperature below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to attain a global peaking of global greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, consistent with science and as documented in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reaffirming that the time frame for peaking will be longer in developing countries; 18 _______________ 13 A/68/260, sect. I. See FCCC/KP/CMP/2012/13/Add.1. 15 FCCC/CP/2007/6/Add.1, decision 1/CP.13. 16 FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1 and 2 and FCCC/KP/CMP/2010/12/Add.1 and 2. 17 FCCC/CP/2011/9/Add.1 and 2 and FCCC/KP/CMP/2011/10/Add.1 and 2. 18 FCCC/CP/2012/8/Add.1, decision 1/CP.18. 14 3/5