Nature of the 2015 agreement. The Ad-hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action aims at laying the foundation for developing a global and comprehensive legally-binding agreement under the Convention that is applicable to all Parties, and at ensuring that mitigation action before 2020 will be enhanced. In Durban, Parties agreed on the general terms that the 2015 agreement should be ambitious, sufficient, applicable to all Parties with fair share, comprehensive (mitigation, adaptation, means of implementation, and transparency of action and support), legally-binding and be adopted by 2015 at latest to enter into force by 2020 (EU 2013a, b). To accomplish the broadest possible participation in the 2015 agreement, Canada believed that the new agreement should provide for flexibility, transparency and accountability; encourage greater and broader ambition continually; and facilitate Parties in meeting their commitments (Canada 2013). Stressing the equal importance of mitigation and adaptation, South Africa suggested that a future agreement shall be dynamic, cost-effective and fair (Öko Institut 2013). To realise broader participation through the 2015 agreement, Korea stressed the three points to be taken into account: national circumstances, balance between stringency and participation, and incentivising more ambitious action (Korea 2013).
