The Cancun Catch-up

Melita and Tsepo, two members of the Greenpeace Africa team, give us the inside scoop of what's going on at this round of climate talks in Cancun, Mexico.

  • Manic Monday, Week 2

    Blogpost by Melita Steele - December 8, 2010 at 10:14

    Monday was a grey and gloomy first day of work for the Ministers here in Cancun – but that’s the weather, not necessarily the politics.

    South Africa has a large delegation in Cancun (over a hundred people are on the delegation, but only around 20 of ... Read more >

  • What Really Happened in the First Week

    Blogpost by Melita Steele - December 7, 2010 at 11:36

    It’s been quite a week in Cancun. The days here are long – most nights the Greenpeace team (we have people here from our offices across the world) doesn’t get back to our hotel before 9pm at the earliest.

    One of the biggest problems to flare up this ...

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  • Cancun - negotiations enter week two

    Blogpost by Daniel Kessler - December 7, 2010 at 0:10

    We are now one week into the Cancun climate talks.  Yes, progress comes at a glacial pace--sometimes it feels like it doesn’t come at all--and the signals here are mixed on just what will happen when the traveling carnival known as the COP come... Read more >

  • What is really at stake?

    Blogpost by Melita Steele - December 6, 2010 at 9:30

    It’s now the morning of day 6 of the climate negotiations in Cancun – Saturday is just a normal working day for everyone here. The good news is that the terrible traffic congestion has disappeared (it actually only lasted for one day), the bad news is... Read more >

  • Breaking tradition in Cancun

    Blogpost by Jess Miller - November 30, 2010 at 16:38

    The first day of the COP16 has come to close. There was lots of traffic, security, speeches, ceremonies, all following the normal first day traditions of a UN climate meeting. For the next two weeks though,  what I hope to see is countries breaking... Read more >

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