Negotiators from 193 countries have wrapped up a package of agreements that advances efforts to cope with climate change and lays a foundation for talks leading to the next conference in Durban, South Africa.
More than 30 Chinese and US nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have announced a cooperative agreement to tackle climate change.
An advertisement criticizing Japan as the main stumbling block to the ongoing United Nations climate talks in Cancun appeared in Friday's edition of the Financial Times, a result of the country's decision to walk away from the Kyoto Protocol.
Confirmation of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol is the focal issue of the Cancun talks, Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese delegation said in Cancun on Thursday.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, called on all participating countries in the Cancun climate talks to “redouble their efforts and use creative ways” to turn out a “successful outcome” for the conference, in a press conference Thursday afternoon.
Confirmation of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol is the focal issue of the Cancun talks, Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese delegation, said in his meeting with representatives of international non-government organizations on the sideline of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun.
Non-governmental organizations from China and the United States agreed on Thursday to deepen their cooperation by establishing long-term exchanges and knowledge sharing on climate change issues.
Wu Changhua, director of an international NGO, made a stir at the Copenhagen climate summit last year when she told a full-house audience of China's mitigation actions at a BBC television live debate with guest speakers.
In the waters off Coco Bongo, a beach in this resort city, models of the Statue of Liberty, the Sydney Opera House and the Eiffel Tower were bobbing up and down.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged a positive outcome as the two-week Cancun summit nears its end.
Top UN officials have set positive tones for the climate change conference as it reaches the last three days.
Patagonia, the southernmost part of South America, and the coastal mountain ranges of Alaska are losing their huge glaciers faster and for longer periods of time than those in other parts of the world, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday.