From Nov. 29 to Dec. 10, the 16th Conference of Parties to the U.N.
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) convenes in Cancún,
Mexico, to follow up on last year’s summit in Copenhagen, where world
leaders failed to negotiate an international, legally-binding treaty to
curb harmful emissions of greenhouse
gases.IPS Inter Press Service has an
international contingent of journalists from Africa, South Asia and the
Americas reporting from COP 16 in Cancun. The team is producing a daily
IPS TerraViva online
conference newspaper, and material in English, Spanish and French for the
IPS news service and the Tierramerica
(http://tierramerica.net)
communication platform.
Follow our coverage of the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun on our
special edition TerraViva COP
16 site, on Facebook at
From the Frontline of
Environment - IPS and on Twitter @ipsenvironment.
Visit
www.ipsnews.net/climate_change/ and
http://www.ipsnoticias.net/_focus/cclimatico/ to access IPS reporting
on climate change before, during and after COP 16.
IPS is also organizing a media workshop for journalists from G20
countries attending the
GLOBE
international legislators forum in Mexico DF from 3rd to 5th
December.
IPS thanks COM +, UNESCO, FANRPAN and CCMP for their support.