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COP 16: Cancún climate change conference 2010

News and analysis from the COP16 UN climate change conference 2010 in Cancún, Mexico, 29 November - 10 December

February 2016

  • Vehicles are stranded in floodwaters at a roundabout in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, Thailand.

    Why can’t poor countries access the climate finance they were promised?

    As some of the least developed nations claim they can’t access the Green Climate Fund, NGOs get onboard to help with the lengthy accreditation process

November 2015

  • French foreign minister Laurent Fabius talks to delegates during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany,  June 1, 2015. (

    Everything you need to know about the Paris climate summit and UN talks

    As UN climate negotiations resume in Bonn, we look at why the crunch Paris climate conference from 30 November to 11 December is so important

November 2012

  • Cancun COP16: Japan to keep in the Kyoto Protocol

    The highs and lows of 15 years of climate talks - in pictures

    From Yvo's tears to Durban deadlock, we look back at the highs and lows of the last 15 years of climate talks since the Kyoto protocol was signed

August 2012

  • Cancun COP16 : United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon

    Green Climate Fund to discuss $100bn pledged by rich countries

    UN body set up to be world's single biggest source of financing for climate change mitigation faces complex and difficult task

November 2011

  • climate people : Xie Zhenhua China's chief climate change official Xie Zhenhua

    Climate talks: China calls on developing countries to 'step up'

    China bids to bridge gap between rich and poor nations by urging emerging economies to make concrete emission reduction plans

August 2011

  • MDG : Climate Change meeting (COP16), Cancun

    Poverty matters blog
    Climate change: learning the lessons of the past 50 years

    Stephen P Groff: We must draw on our experience of development co-operation to ensure climate change funds are effectively used

June 2011

  • Bono Geldhof Kofi Anan Gleneagles

    Needed: a world leader

    David King
  • Africa climate change

    Bonn climate talks: Developing nations question funding commitment

April 2011

  • EU climate change commissioner Connie Hedegaard

    Guardian Environment Network
    Durban climate deal impossible, say US and EU envoys

  • UN climate change conference, December 2009

    Why the UN can never stop climate change

    David G Victor

January 2011

  • Greenpeace protest in Cancun

    Cif green
    Reheating the climate change story

    Jules Boykoff

    Jules Boykoff: The media have dropped climate change, with its tricky science. But cast in economic terms, it could recapture public interest

  • Cancun COP16 : Delegates during the opening ceremony of UNFCCC

    Cif green
    Ban Ki-moon's green growth agenda can bring climate to the heart of the UN

    Yvo de Boer
    Yvo de Boer: Ban Ki-moon must shift the UN's focus to take climate into the mainstream debate on sustainable development
  • COP15 UN Secretary-General  Ban Ki-Moon

    Ban Ki-moon ends hands-on involvement in climate change talks

    UN secretary general will redirect efforts to making more immediate gains in clean energy and sustainable development

December 2010

  • 2010 year in environment:  A small plant photographed growing on polluted water  in New Delhi

    2010 in review
    2010: The year in environment

  • Cancun

    Poverty matters blog
    Development scorecard: where points were won and lost in 2010

  • Pakistan floods

    Poverty matters blog
    The climate change wake-up call

  • Environment review 2008

    Environment blog
    2010: The environment year in review

  • Cif green
    Why Bolivia stood alone in opposing the Cancún climate agreement

    Pablo Solon
  • How trust was restored at Cancún

    Dean Bialek
  • Cif green
    The arrogance of Cancún

    Gustavo Esteva
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