However, there is an underlying worry that western developed countries may try to prolong negotiations, and even if legal amendments are adopted, the process of getting them ratified may take a long time.
This year's climate conference will start in Doha from November 26 and countries will try to hammer out a new legal agreement agreed under the Durban climate package last year.
In Durban last year after hectic negotiations, a face saving agreement was achieved whereby the parties to the Kyoto Protocol agreed for a second commitment period for emission reductions while it was agreed that a post 2020 deal will be worked out under which all countries will be brought under emission reduction targets.
It is notable that the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol ends this December, but an agreement over the second commitment period is not likely to be operationalised any time soon.
"The shape of the agreement that will happen in Doha is not clear but it is important to ensure that the second commitment period agreed to in Durban is actually realised," India's chief negotiator R R Rashmi, joint secretary of the Ministry of Environment, told journalists here today.
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