After 12 long days and nights of negotiations at the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, an Agreement has been adopted. The Cancun Agreement, a collection of 26 documents, supported by 193 countries is a compromise which sees developing and developed nations working together.

This briefing guide by CDKN Alliance partner PriceWaterhouseCoopers analyses the key outcomes from Cancun, discusses the implications for business, carbon markets and investment and offers perspectives from China and Brazil, key countries in the context of climate change. It also looks at the lead-up to the next UN Climate Change Conference, Durban, South Africa 2011.