I'm told we should get our bathing suits ready to go to Cancun for COP 16. However, it seems like there is even less space for meeting in Cancun than in Copenhagen. Quite possibly, NGOs may get shut out once again. Mexico's President Calederón's speech to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last week re COP 15 regarding the process, said something is needed to break the vicious circle of developed and developing countries pointing fingers and not wanting to go first.
Mexico as a poor but developing country wants to take its global responsibility seriously and for that reason will organize COP 16 in Cancún. He specifically mentions the problem with the consensus process in addressing the world's most important issue and that everyone has to take the necessary diplomatic steps, developed or not.
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ReplyDeleteI come from an equally poor country in Africa, Kenya to be exact. I am a journalist. But then one thing that we do not seem to understand in the whole debate of climate change is the proper place of developing countries in bearing the brunt of climate change. CC has become, to me one of those sciences that lead in drama. Even the reporting we saw from Copenhagen was too dramatised - is it true that scientists have finished their work and it is now time for politicians to do their bit? In your own opinion how do we ensure we consume the science and not the drama? Where should Africa stand? Remember a majority of Africans know nothing if not little about CC.
ReplyDeleteAghan Dan, aghandan@yahoo.com
These questions were discussed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in February. You may be interested in getting summaries of these sessions in particular: http://news.aaas.org/2010/0219post-9.shtml
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http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session1591.html