COP17 has come and gone, leaving many South Africans still scratching their heads about what it all meant. You have questions, we have answers.

According to the presidency of COP17, an ad hoc group will now work towards charting a new universal legal agreement on climate change.

A draft global pact on climate change has boosted UN talks, already deep into overtime, but negotiators are worried it's a little too late.

The glaring lack of mention of 'climate' or 'change' in Zuma's speech has left many in the international community in a state of mild panic.

After winning praise for their role in Cancùn, SA's negotiators have high hopes for Durban talks.

Perhaps it is Fifa World Cup syndrome -- a combination of complacency and a blasé attitude -- or just South Africans' tendency to wake up late to big things, but at the moment there is absolutely no apparent recognition of the importance, scale and intensity of the event that South Africa will be hosting in a year's time.

The first decade of the 21st century dawned with a global strategy to fight climate change but ended in chaos with the UN system in tatters.

The UN's top climate negotiator voiced optimism on Monday that a deal can be salvaged next month at world talks on global warming.

Time is running short to pull together a global climate-change deal in crucial talks in Copenhagen in December, the UN's climate-change head says.

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, refers to 2009 as “the year of climate change”.