It’s 3:30am here in Cancun, and the draft decisions presented by Mexico today have been adopted, on both the KP and LCA track. They are being referred to as the ‘Cancun Agreements’. The argument used was that the UN works through...

As I write this blog some of the volunteers and coordinators from the GPmexico team are gearing up to follow the rolling sunlight down to Cancun where as you may or may not know the Climate talks will kick off next Monday the 29th...

This week I’ll be heading to Cancun, Mexico for the international climate negotiations, known as COP 16. The talks officially begin on the 29 th of November, and are scheduled to end on the 10 th of December. In that time, it is...

Last night was the second last night of COP 16, and it didn’t end before 3am. The issues have been escalated to the highest level – which means that the ministers themselves are working bi-laterally and in groups to try to find...

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,...

We’re out of time here in Cancun and things have now run into extra time. Earlier today the Mexican government presented text for both the Kyoto Protocol and the LCA to the 194 countries represented here – the product of 2 weeks of...