Following the hype and failure of last year's Copenhagen COP15 summit, the Ecologist outlines what's on the agenda at the forthcoming COP16 Cancun conference – and assesses the chances of progress...
… Cancun: your five-minute guide to the COP16 … Vi Nguyen | 25th November 2010 News Cancun Climate Change Copenhagen Un Cop 16 … a failure. Campaigners hope the follow-up in Cancun may bring better results Following the …
School dinners by McDonald’s. Corporations taking countries to court because their environmental regulations are ‘too tough’. The BBC sold to Rupert Murdoch. Paul Kingsnorth explains why we should be very worried by what is about to go on behind the closed doors of Cancun.
… Cancun: Why Should You Care? Paul Kingsnorth | … is about to go on behind the closed doors of Cancun. Half the point of the World Trade … the WTO’s upcoming ministerial conference at Cancun – and what difference they are likely …
Corporate and complicit, says Polly Higgins as she surveys the luxury accommodation enjoyed by high-flyers at the latest climate conference
… COP16: Cancun - Colonialism by the sea Polly Higgins … 2010 Comment Comments Ecocide Polly Higgins Cancun Evo Morales Climate Change … the Moon Palace golf resort, 22km south of Cancun, which was reserved for the exclusive …
Mexico's tourist resort of Cancún has just lost one of its greatest natural riches, writes Miguel Rivas: 57 hectares of species rich mangrove forest, bulldozed in a massive overnight attack by property developers in league with local officials. But people power can still win the battle and see the Tajamar mangroves restored.
Cancún's mangroves are destroyed. But hope grows again! Miguel Rivas Greenpeace Mexico | 17th February 2016 Comment Mexico Oceans Forests Development Tourism Law Protest …
Major industrialised powers claim progress has been made towards a legally-binding agreement but campaigners warn new deal will be 'weak' and 'wholly inadaquate' in preventing climate change
… Cancun climate summit fails to agree successor … | 12th December 2010 News Climate Change Cancun Greenhouse Gas Emissions … latest international climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico . The Summit was taking place …
In September the World Trade Organisation will be holding its fifth ministerial conference in Cancun, Mexico. Simon Retallack explains what is at stake.
… holding its fifth ministerial conference in Cancun, Mexico. Simon Retallack explains what … the WTO will meet for the fifth time in Cancun, Mexico. Outlined here are the key … of the world’s largest corporations. At Cancun, governments must decide whether or not …
Does it annoy you that the earth is being destroyed to benefit a tiny minority? Enough to do something about it? Derrick Jensen invites you to join him on the barricades
… you Derrick Jensen | 1st June 2003 Other Cancun Sustainability Economic System Natural … who will attend the WTO conference in Cancun. They’re killing us (and the world) as … the triggers. If I could say one thing to the Cancun delegates, as they hide behind their …
Seoul, host of this year's G20, is well on the way to achieving its goal of becoming one of the world's most eco-friendly cities. But, as Anna Sheldrick reports, there may be room for improvement elsewhere in South Korea
… last year, and wary expectation for COP16 in Cancun this year, delegates at the latest G20 … to reach a balanced and successful outcome in Cancun’. Had they taken note of their …
Free trade. So benign sounding a phrase. A concept whose principles no reasonable person would challenge. Trouble is, free trade as we know it – free trade as it is pushed by those who will mass at Cancun, Mexico, in September – is far from free. Think about it. If it truly was free, would they put sanctions on those who don’t want to participate and use police to violently put down protests by those who oppose it? Free trade is really just a euphemism, like ‘peacekeeping’ or ‘forest management’, that hides a far uglier, more brutal reality. Free trade is a brand – Free Trade™, which sells a repackaged product no one in their right minds would buy if they knew what it really was.
… as it is pushed by those who will mass at Cancun, Mexico, in September – is far from … our leaders will talk about and promote at Cancun is not and can never be ‘free’; when …
A tourism boom in the Yucatán Peninsula is threatening the delicately balanced ecosystems of the Laguna Bacalar. We must regulate tourism and pollution to better protect the ancient organisms that have thrived in its waters, argues HARRY SHEPHERD
… lagoon has been heralded by some as the 'next Cancun' - a nod to the saturated playground … to Euromonitor International research, Cancun was the strongest growing city …
Continuing our series on how to successfully campaign, Christine Ottery reports on the best ways to motivate armchair activists to take offline action - and gets tips from some of those who've pioneered new forms of protest
… to make sure Chris Huhne stayed at the Cancun climate summit when it was rumoured he … with phone calls to tell him to stay at the Cancun negotiations - so many that the Downing … advisors. Chris Huhne ended up staying in Cancun. Focus on local action A recent survey …
Mexico is determined to restore populations of its largest native predator, the jaguar, to long term viability, writes Kent Paterson. That means creating millions of acres of ecological corridors across the country, and joining with US colleagues to secure large areas of habitat in southwestern states, where recent sightings give hope that jaguars are returning to their former range.
… of Quintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula near Cancun. Nearly half of Mexico's jaguar … coral reef shelf that extends from near Cancun south to Honduras in the western …
Yesterday, as climate talks degraded into a sideshow for the coal industry, more than 800 conference participants walked out. So where now for the climate movement? Alexander Reid Ross argues for an end to collaboration, and the beginning of a deeper resistance.
… and lies after Copenhagen. The next year in Cancun, the Conference of Parties talks went … Africa, seemed to continue the sentiments of Cancun. The next year, at COP 18 in Doha, the …
This month we highlight the potential dangers of controversial hydraulic fracturing as the scramble for natural gas intensifies, we report on uranium mining in the US, probe Egypt's factory farming boom and examine efforts being made by supermarkets to deal with excess packaging waste... To access this exclusive content plus other articles, log in and scroll down to the bottom of the page...
… of the page... At the time of writing the Cancun COP 16 climate talks are still underway …
With little hope of a binding deal on climate change at the latest UN summit, campaigners are hoping that Africa's COP will tackle the issue that plagues the continent most: agriculture
… in Bali, Copenhagen, and most recently, Cancun, not much will come in the way of …
Despite a growing consensus in favour of alternatives such as 'carbon clubs' and bilateral agreements, Friends of the Earth's Craig Bennett says the UN is our best hope for tackling climate change
… And the outcome of last year’s talks in Cancun, Mexico, opened the door for a …
As the delegates at the UN climate change talks in Qatar (COP18) reach their mid-summit stride, British meteorologist, Lord Julian Hunt reflects that now is the time for the Gulf States themselves to start cutting their emissions
… and to take effect in 2020. At Copenhagen and Cancun, in 2009 and 2010 respectively, …
Overtaken by massive regional trade agreements like TPP, TTIP, CETA and TINA, the World Trade Organisation has slipped into the background, writes Polly Jones. But this week it's back with a vengeance, with its first big meeting in two years. The US's plan is to globalise the investment protection regime set out in the TTP, and open a new era of corporate rule and the eradication of democracy.
… News Trade Finance Politics UK USA wto-demo-cancun-cut.jpg Overtaken by massive regional …
160 global groups have called for a moratorium on new 'genetic extinction' technology at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Cancun, Mexico. Gene drive technology, they say, poses serious and irreversible threats to biodiversity, national sovereignty, peace and food security.
… Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Cancun, Mexico. Gene drive technology, they …
Talk of a long-term climate deal to cut carbon emissions is allowing industrialised countries to delay taking action, says Murray Worthy from the World Development Movement
… climate change. At the climate talks in Cancun, countries pledged to keep temperature …
Ahead of the latest UN climate conference, Tom Levitt asks if its time we let go of the holy grail of targets and looked at alternatives such as 'carbon clubs'?
… of failure The summits in Copenhagen and Cancun continued what a number of observers …
Phillip Manbridge, CEO of Care for the Wild International, introduces the 'No Photos, Please!' campaign, which forces us to look beyond the adorable faces of captive animals we encounter abroad and ask - what is the real story here?
… monkey in a dress in Marrakesh, a lion cub in Cancun or (less cute but quite exotic), a …
An economy run on slave labour has much in common with one run on fossil fuels, argues Jean-Francois Mouhot. Ending suffering means we all need to become modern-day abolitionists
… to prevent climate change COMMENT COP16: Cancun - Colonialism by the sea Corporate and …