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 ...

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...

Since my last update a lot has happened and so fast that I could not even keep up. So, without any further delay I will get right on it. Last Saturday saw the end of what was a very successful week for raising awareness in Mexico...

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...

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...

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),...

Mexico is a vibrantly beautiful country - on the edge of the Carribean it has clear turquoise seas and huge expanses of forest. And, much like South Africa, it’s also a developing country trying to deal with the complex problems of job...