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l the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP). The ultimate decision making body of the Convention is the Conference of the Parties (COP), which meets every year during November and December to review the implementation of the Convention. This year, the Conference took place from 29th November in Cancun, Mexico and ended on the 1Oth of December, 2010, with the adoption of a balanced package of decisions that will set all governments more firmly on the path towards low em1ss1on futures and support enhanced action on climate change in the developing world. The package, dubbed as the 'Cancun Agreements' was welcomed by all Parties in the final plenary. Elements of the Cancun Agreements include: • Industrialised country targets are officially recognized under the multilateral process and these countries are to develop low carbon development plans and strategies and assess how best to meet them, including through market mechanisms, and to report their inventories annually. • Developing country actions to reduce emissions are officially recognised under the multilateral process. A registry is to be set up to record and match developing country mitigation actions for finance and technological support by industrialised countries. Developing countries are to publish progress reports every two years. • Parties meeting under the Kyoto Protocol agree to continue negotiations with the aim of completing their work and ensuring there is no gap between the first and second commitment periods of the Treaty. • The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism has been strengthened to drive more investments and technology into environmentally sound and sustainable em1ss1on reduction projects in the developing world. • Parties launched a set of initiatives and institutions to protect the vulnerable from climate change and to deploy the money and technology that developing countries need to plan and build their sustainable futures. • A total of $30 billion in fast start finance from industrialised countries to support climate action in the developing world up to 2012 and the intention to raise $100 billion in long-term funds by 2020 are included in the decisions. • In the field of climate finance, a process to design a Green Climate Fund under the COP, with equal representation from developed and developing countries, is established. • A new Cancun Adaptation Framework is established to allow better planning and implementation of adaptation projects in developing countries through increased financial and technical support, including a clear process for continuing work on loss and damage. • Governments agree to boost action to curb emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries with technological and financial support. • Parties establish a technology mechanism with a Technology Executive Committee ·-and Climate Technology Centre and Network to increase S&T cooperation to support action on adaptation and mitigation. Article 6: India' s review at Cancun The UNFCCC, through its Article 6, and the Kyoto Protocol, through its Article 10 (e), call on governments to educate, empower and engage all stakeholders and major groups on policies relating to climate change. In particular, Article 6 of the Convention, which addresses the issue of climate change related education , training and public awareness, is the main vehicle by means of which the Convention fosters action to develop and implement educational and training programmes on climate change. To address the challenges of communicating, teaching, and learning about climate change , Parties adopted in November 2002 the 'New Delhi Work Programme'(NDWP) on Article 6 of the Convention (decision 11/CP.8), which is a five year country driven work programme engaging all stakeholders in the implementation of Article 6 commitments and recommending a list of activities that could be undertaken at national level to facilitate public participation and access to information in relation to climate change and its effects . The five year mandate for the execution of the NDWP came to an end in . 2007. However, in December 2007 Parties recognized that this work programme had proved to be a good framework for action and decided to adopt the amended NDWP for a further five years. Reviewing the actions under the NDWP during the 16th COP at Cancun, Mexico, the COP 13