The climate summit in Copenhagen a year ago inspired many catchy nicknames starting with 'hopenhagen' to portray early expectations that it would deliver a solution to the climate crisis, and later 'nopenhagen' and the famous 'flopenhagen' capturing its failure. Given the deeply flawed Copenhagen Accord (CA) and the dynamics at that summit, there were hardly any expectations from the recently concluded COP16 in Cancun, and observers would not have been astonished if this summit too had collapsed without further progress. Probably for this reason, many commentators including several progressive groups have been not merely pleasantly surprised that the Cancun summit actually delivered a set of agreed documents collectively termed the Cancun Agreements, but have even broadly welcomed it as a positive development that bodes well for the next Summit at Durban, South Africa in December 2011 when a legally binding Treaty to replace the extant Kyoto Protocol is to be finalised.