• 4 December 2010 | News | COP 16

  

  Turning Point

  Delicate situation at the climate talks

  The Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) stood firm at the climate talks in Cancun and announced that if developed countries confirm their intentions to kill the Kyoto Protocol, the Alliance will not agree on any package at the talks. Read more

• 3 December 2010 | News | COP 16

  

  Breaking News

  ALBA warns about critical situation at the COP16: process of negotiations at risk

  Some developed countries have acknowledged during an informal meeting at the COP16 in Cancun that there is no chance that a second commitment of the Kyoto Protocol (2013-2017) will be agreed. This is what the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) said in a press conference a few minutes ago. Read more

• 3 December 2010 | News | COP 16

  

  Death Blow

  Discussions on the Kyoto Protocol

  Japan announced at the Cancun climate talks that the country will abandon the Kyoto Protocol, the only treaty that forces Northern countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Social organizations following the UN conference consider Japan´s announcement a threat to the process of negotiations. Read more

• 3 December 2010 | News | COP 16

  

  In Front of Everyone

  Environmentalists strong at plenary session of UN Climate Conference

  On Wednesday, at the plenary session of the COP16 on Climate Change in Cancun, Friends of the Earth highlighted the need for the official negotiations to take place in a democratic and transparent way. The environmentalist federation also rejected the attention the convention has been paying these past days to carbon markets. Read more

• 3 December 2010 | Interviews | COP 16

  

  The Kitchen of the COP

  Community kitchen as part of the activities parallel to the climate talks

  Far away from the main hotels, the beach and the shopping malls, there is a different Cancun than that shown in tourism photos. It is in this “other city” where a community kitchen was established with the aim to give food to thousands of people who will participate in the activities parallel to the COP16 on climate change. Read more

• 3 December 2010 | Interviews | COP 16

  

  On Time

  Interview with Ricardo Navarro about the priorities and urgent demands at the COP16

  In an interview with Real World Radio, the member of CESTA-Friends of the Earth El Salvador, said that the political and economic powers must understand the seriousness of the issue of climate change, and pointed out that greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced in a drastic way. Read more

• 1 December 2010 | Interviews | COP 16

  

  Right Now

  Establishment of a transparent climate finance mechanism urgently needed

  In the past years, the US has systematically blocked any important advance at the international climate talks. At the COP16 on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico, there is the risk that the country will block the establishment of a global fund to finance climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. Read more

• 1 December 2010 | News | COP 16

  

  Deceitful Figures

  Numbers in the fight against climate change: central issue at the COP in Cancun

  The proposals around climate finance included in the “Copenhagen Accord” of December, 2009, by the US and some countries is considered completely inadequate by several governments and social movements and organizations in the world. Read more

• 1 December 2010 | Special reports | COP 16

  

  Let Rights Prevail

  Women with HIV in Colombia organize forum against gender-based violence, but it was suddenly ended by the authorities

  As another example of the level of repression in Colombia, a forum of women with HIV, gender activists and men who are aware of this problem, which took place in the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, was suddenly ended by the local authorities of Cali. Read more

• 1 December 2010 | Interviews | COP 16

  

  Mobilized Cancun

  Thousands of peasants march demanding climate justice

  On Tuesday, the social movements that travelled through Mexico by caravan in the past few days marched to downtown Mexico City to denounce the policies that destroy the environment and to demand real solutions to tackle climate change. Read more

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