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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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… 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 …
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 …
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 …
Emissions of short-lived pollutants like black carbon can be reduced and provide quick reductions in climate change and improvements in air quality. The Ecologist reports
… degrees at last years UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, and may lead nations to agree …
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… issued at the political circuses of Cancun or Copenhagen. To the Middle East …
Reports of severe flooding around the UK, widely believed to be linked to climate change, pour in. But Owen Paterson, reports Sophie Morlin-Yron, has sharply cut the budget for coping with the effects of climate change.
… the 2010 UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun which required Defra to give £140m to …
The Jewish National Fund UK has always denied a swirl of claims over its history and activities in the Middle East, including allegations of land grabbing Palestinian villages. But campaigners want the organisation stripped of its charitable status
… the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen and Cancun – holding seminars on the fringes in …
Despite no scientific training Bjørn Lomborg has had a strong influence on the climate change debate, positioning himself against climate deniers and campaigners who say that climate change is a global emergency
… but saying, "well, let's try again in Cancun", which of course failed, or saying, …
Ahead of the latest UN climate conference, leading academic Anthony Giddens explains why it's time to switch to smaller agreements between major world powers
… result of what happened in Copenhagen and in Cancun in which some of the large developing …
Peru, notorious for its brutal exploitation of forests, oil and minerals, theft of indigenous lands and murder of eco-defenders, is an unlikely host for the COP20 climate talks, writes Alexander Reid Ross. Except that Peru's actions reflect the corporate land-grabbing agenda manifest in the false solutions on offer in Lima this week. It's a time for resistance, not compromise!
COP20 and corporate power - destroying the edifice of false climate solutions Alexander Reid Ross | 10th December 2014 News Peru Unfccc Land Grabs Corporations Farming Indigenous Peoples Trade USA …
A small fishing community in Mexico's Baja California is playing involuntary host to a gigantic tourism and real estate development, writes Viviane Mahieux. And while the branding of the Tres Santos resort is all about mindfulness, ecology and sustainability, the reality is one of big money, high level politics, and the unaccountable deployment of state violence against those who dare oppose it.
Brutal, opaque, illegal: the dark side of the Tres Santos 'mindfulness' eco-tourism resort Viviane Mahieux | 29th April 2016 News Mexico USA Development Oceans Fishing Finance Tourism …
Locked out of some meetings. Not even invited to others. And then all the decisions are made after you’ve left. It’s all in a day’s work for ‘developing’ World delegates at the WTO. By Mark Lynas
… be just as bad at the upcoming WTO meeting in Cancun, Mexico. The powerful countries have …
'Open source' is a familiar concept to many web users, providing free, well-supported software across the internet. But could the same principles be used to rapidly disseminate low-carbon technologies around the world?
… a new international technology mechanism in Cancun; quadrupling public research and …
The greatest danger of the Paris conference is that the global South will be bullied into to accepting a terrible deal rather than leave with none at all, writes Brian Tokar. That gives civil society an essential role - to support the resistance of developing country representatives inside the summit to an unjust and ineffective agreement imposed on them by the rich, powerful, high-emitting nations.
COP21, Paris: 'Another world is possible, necessary and urgent' Brian Tokar | 17th November 2015 News Climate Change Unfccc COP21 France eiffel-tower-cut.jpg The greatest danger of the Paris …