Cancun is in the news again. Seven years ago, this coastal city in eastern Mexico was the venue for the 5th ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Now, it is hosting the United Nations Conference on Climate Change.
Climate change negotiation is an urgent issue cannot wait too much bargaining and all sides should make their utmost efforts to ensure progress of the Cancun meeting, China's top climate change negotiator Su Wei told China Daily Tuesday after the Opening Ceremony of the United Nation's Climate Change Meeting in Cancun.
Sincerity is all the more needed to make substantial achievements at Cancun, despite mounting difficulty to reach a legally-binding treaty.
When negotiators start talks in Cancun, they should remember that climate change goes beyond political trade-offs, the carbon market and the profit making of green business opportunities.
By 2050, there would well be more than 9 billion people on Earth. To accommodate this jump in population we have no choice but to complete the transition to a low-carbon global economy.
The mounting challenges that the climate negotiators face have understandably precluded high expectations of the UN climate change conference that started on Monday in Cancun, Mexico.
The long journey to counter climate change is arriving at an important station when the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-16) starts in Mexico's resort city of Cancun on Nov 29.
The key to success at the upcoming Cancun climate change conference rests with the United States and other developed countries.
The world media will be focused on Cancun, Mexico, from Nov 29 to Dec 10. It is that time of the year when most of the world leaders appear worried about the fate of planet Earth, while during the rest of the 50 weeks it is mostly business as usual. Not that business as usual ceases for the two weeks.
The world's media are getting ready for the United Nations Climate Change Conference that opens next Monday, in Cancun, Mexico.
'Please consider taking the stairs if you're going to one of the first five floors," says a sign by the elevators in an office building of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in Beijing.
Climate change is an important challenge that we all have to address with a sense of urgency. As a global challenge, it can only be tackled through the concerted efforts of all nations, according to their common but differentiated responsibilities.