Cancun Monitor
[NEWS] Green fund for climate-hurts, Cancun summit agrees deal
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 [...]
[NEWS] Cancún deal leaves hard climate tasks to Durban summit in 2011
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 [...]
[UPDATE] Cancunhagen forces humankind to suicide!
(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 [...]
[UPDATE] Statement by the Indigenous Environmental Network
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 [...]
[PAPER] PRESS RELEASE: Closing UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún
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 [...]
[PAPER] UNEP: The Emissions Gap Report
Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General UNEP Executive Director. Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges but also an inordinate opportunity to catalyze a transition to a low-carbon, resource efficient Green Economy. This report informs governments and the wider community on how far a response to climate change has progressed over the past 12 months, [...]
[NEWS] U.N. pacts contain small steps but no broad accord on climate change
LA Times- Delegates agree to measure greenhouse gases and help vulnerable countries gird for worsening sea levels, droughts and hurricanes. The role of China and other developing economies remains a point of contention. By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times December 12, 2010 Reporting from Cancun, Mexico Delegates from 190 countries ended two weeks of diplomatic [...]
[NEWS] NEGOTIATIONS: U.S. and China maintain polite disagreement as climate talks reach final days
NEGOTIATIONS: U.S. and China maintain polite disagreement as climate talks reach final days Climate Wire (12/08/2010) Lisa Friedman, E&E reporter CANCUN, Mexico — China’s pledge to reduce the intensity of its carbon emissions will be bound by domestic law, but it is “premature” to demand the country make internationally binding commitments, a top Chinese negotiator [...]
[NEWS] Cancun Summit at Risk
Tuesday, 07 December 2010 11:44 Without plans to reduce emissions, and specific objectives to reduce emissions by 5 billion tons by 2020, UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun is at risk. Environmentalists and social movements are protesting today in the streets today in Cancun. They call for binding targets to emission reduction and for closing [...]
[NEWS] Compromise spirit at climate talks in last days
CANCUN, Mexico – It may not last, but a spirit of compromise seems to have settled over the annual U.N. climate conference as negotiators enter its final days looking for agreements on secondary tools for coping with global warming. ———————————————- ——————–
[NEWS] Bolivia Alleges U.S. Blackmail At Climate Change Negotiation
CANCUN, MEXICO, Dec 7) — Bolivia alleged that the United States was using “blackmail” tactics at climate change negotiations to force other countries to accept its position.
[UPDATE] Cancun: Anger grows at World Bank role in climate
Cancun: Anger grows at World Bank role in climate Rich countries ignore majority of the world and push World Bank to control climate finance As talks on long-term climate finance [1] start today, campaigners from around the world will express their opposition to the World Bank being handed control of global climate funds. The new [...]
