This research report focuses on the 2015 international climate change agreement and the Durban Platform. It looks at the results of an online questionnaire carried out in January 2014. The Durban Platform decision reached at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Durban, South Africa. It launched "a new process to develop a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the UNFCCC," which would be "applicable to all Parties."

The survey focused on the legal form or legal architecture of the 2015 agreement, as well as the legal nature of commitments related to mitigation and finance. Most respondents expected the agreement package to include a legal instrument such as a protocol and a series of non-legal instruments such as COP decisions. The report groups responses into six types of agreement packages.