AFP- Global talks on climate change yesterday set up a new fund to manage billions of dollars in aid to poor nations in a hard-fought package urging deep cuts in industrial emissions. Turning the page a year after the chaotic climate summit in Copenhagen, more than 190 countries meeting in Mexico kept ambitions in check [...]
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Guardian UK- After the catastrophe in Copenhagen came the compromise in Cancún, but one that left the most difficult decisions for Durban next year. The deal reached at the UN’s international climate change negotiations, which ended last Saturday in Mexico, was enough to save the UN process itself from burning out, but remains far short [...]
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(Cancun, Mexico, December 11, 2010) The final outcome of the Cancun climate talks basically reflects the same negative outcome of the Copenhagen Accord in December, 2009. Therefore, it threatens the life of the Kyoto Protocol, but even more importantly, it threatens the life of humankind, because if these outcome is implemented, by the end of [...]
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Cancún, Mexico — As representatives of Indigenous peoples and communities already suffering the immediate impacts of climate change, we express our outrage and disgust at the agreements that have emerged from the COP16 talks. As was exposed in the Wikileaks climate scandal, the Cancun Agreements are not the result of an informed and open consensus [...]
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UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún delivers balanced package of decisions, restores faith in multilateral process (Cancún, 11 December 2010) The UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Mexico, ended on Saturday with the adoption of a balanced package of decisions that set all governments more firmly on the path towards a low-emissions future and [...]
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