Grassroots group have organized the South-South Summit on Climate Justice and Finance as a side event to the official U.N. conference. It is an effort to strengthen the voices of those not welcome behind closed doors at COP16.
A daily breakdown: what is REDD? how might it affect local communities? what are grassroots groups doing? Get the skinny from Cancún.
Today launched the United Nations climate summit in Mexico. While the world needs decisive action, this two-week conference promises to produce much less.
November 29th kicks off the two-week long 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico.
This ‘People’s’ Conference provides an opportunity to put civil society back into climate negotiations. Its outcomes—informed by representatives of indigenous peoples, rural villages, and coastal communities—will be powerful forces in re-shaping the climate change policy debate into one focused on the lives and lands at stake in a rapidly changing world.
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