ACT Alliance

Cancun climate change conference 2010

Climate change is already affecting millions and millions of people around the world. Farmers in Malawi lose their crops due to changing whether conditions, pastoralists in Uganda lose their cattle due to drought, and fishermen in Bangladesh lose their house due to flooding.

During the two coming weeks government representatives from all parts of the world will meet in Cancun, Mexico, to continue their talks about climate change, and to negotiate a global climate change agreement. The agreement should cover four areas, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (also called mitigation), to promote and scale up adaptation measures, to facilitate technology cooperation and to mobilize the required finance.

Negotiations have been going on for several years and the last attempt to reach an agreement, during COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark last year, did not succeed. It is not likely that Cancun will deliver a new agreement either, but hopefully it will lead to concrete and constructive steps towards a fair, ambitious and legally binding deal.

I will follow the negotiations during the coming weeks, and you are welcome to follow my impressions, comments and experiences on this webpage.

Mattias Söderberg

DanChurchAid, Danish member of the ACT alliance