The recently concluded United Nations climate talks in Doha failed to produce the desired results and left many questions for future meetings.

In the meeting, which is formally called the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP 18), ministers from around 200 countries agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol for a few years and also to take more ambitious actions to cut emissions of gases responsible for the global warming.

The delegates addressed the concept of loss and damage by recognizing the escalating frequency of threats from extreme weather events, such as drought and rise sea level. In addition, the body urged developed countries to pledge more financial as well as technical support for the most vulnerable countries. But it failed to create a mechanism to handle such aid.

Pacific nation Nauru's foreign minister Kieren Keke, who is also the chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States, said that the package adopted by the body was deeply deficient.

Speaking on the topic, Keke said, "This is not where we wanted to be at the end of the meeting, I assure you. It certainly isn't where we need to be in order to prevent islands from going under and other unimaginable impacts."

Keke also stressed that island countries would continue to fall short year after year unless the work is supported by world leaders such as United States, which has so far remained reluctant in making the required commitments to cut carbon emission.