Political leaders disappointed in climate finance and slow progress

Cancun, 8 December (Hilary Chiew) – President Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia lamented that the promise of Copenhagen has been lost and called for the US$30 billion fast start finance to be made available immediately.

The Peoples Movement on Climate Change was present at the different civil society spaces in Cancun. PMCC coordinator Tetet Nera-Lauron was a resource person at the Plenary Session on Agriculture and Climate Change at the Dialogo Climatico on Dec. 5, at a seminar on Climate Migrants organized by
Equity Bd, at the workshop on Just Transition Now! Towards a Peoples Protocol on Climate Change at the Klima Forum 10.

Transparency and inclusiveness take centre stage in stocktaking

Cancun, 6 Dec (Chee Yoke Ling and Lim Li Lin) – The informal stocktaking of the first week of the ongoing climate talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol focused on issues of transparency and inclusiveness as well as the integrity of a Party-driven process.

Cancun, 7 Dec (Chee Yoke Ling) – In announcing that newly arrived ministers will help to move the climate negotiations forward, Mexican Minister Patricia Espinosa, President of the Conference of Parties, also reassured Parties that the process will be transparent and inclusive.

SBI session closes on a positive note, with more to be done

Cancun, 6 Dec (Hilary Chiew) -  The 33rd session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) closed on the night of 4 December with the adoption of 14 conclusions and decisions respectively.