On AlterNet: cancun

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Baby Steps Made at Climate Summit Pale in Comparison to the Change Needed

Tina Gerhardt, AlterNet. December 12, 2010.

"All of us will be affected by the lack of ambition and political will of a small group of countries," concluded one NGO.

Reading the Coca Leaves: Climate Change, Cancun and Bolivia

Medea Benjamin, AlterNet. December 11, 2010.

If we are to avoid ecocide, we cannot rely on government officials meeting in plush golf resorts.

Is REDD the New Green? Why a Much-Hyped Carbon Offset Program May Do More Harm Than Good

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. December 9, 2010.

There's a real division, not only between rich countries who are very much for this and others, but also in the progressive community.

Are Rich Nations Forming a Backroom Deal to Undermine a Climate Treaty?

Tina Gerhardt, Huffington Post. December 9, 2010.

Is this an attempt to ditch the Kyoto Protocol, leaving nothing in its place to ensure commitments to greenhouse gas reductions, the cornerstone for averting climate change?

The Skinny on Cancun: What's Happening at the International Climate Meeting and What's at Stake?

Tina Gerhardt, AlterNet. December 6, 2010.

Why the media's refrain of "low expectations" may be just a ploy by a small group of industrialized countries (including the U.S.) to obscure their obligations to act.

Maude Barlow: A Healthy Environment Should Be a Human Right

Madeline Ostrander, YES! Magazine. December 5, 2010.

In most legal systems, you have a right to freedom of speech or religion, but you don't have a right to breathe clean air or drink safe water. That needs to change.

If Cancun Climate Talks Falter, Blame the US

Sarah Laskow, The Media Consortium. December 5, 2010.

Although international expectations are muted this year, the stakes are still high.

How Cancun's Attempt to Develop a Tourist Beach Paradise Helped Turn It into Mexico's Suicide Capital

Roberto Lovato, Colorlines.com. December 3, 2010.

The line separating paradise and hell in Cancun is blurry -- the migrant workers who keep the tourism industry often face bleak, lonely fates.

India Hopes to Break Deadlock at Cancun Climate Talks

AFPDecember 3, 2010.

India is hoping to be a "bridge player" between rich and poor countries.

Climate Change Could Cause Half the World to Lose Access to Clean Water

Nathan Diebenow, Raw Story. November 29, 2010.

Climate change scientists believe that a mass global movement to "decarbonize" human activity in order to stay below this temperature is virtually impossible.

Low Expectations for Climate Conference to Produce Legally Binding International Accord

Tina Gerhardt, The Nation. November 29, 2010.

As negotiators, nonprofit organizations and activists flock to the luxury resort in droves, serious tensions threaten to derail the process entirely.

Stakes Are High and Time Is Short for This Week's UN Climate Change Conference

Environment News ServiceNovember 29, 2010.

The world could easily and quickly reduce non-carbon dioxide pollutants; the technology and regulatory systems needed to do so are already in place.

We Must Stop Climate Change and We Can Do it in Cancun

Claudia Salerno, AlterNet. November 3, 2010.

Venezuela’s lead negotiator on climate change writes that protecting the earth's climate is quite achievable if there is the political will to do so.

Child Pornography and Human Trafficking: Cancun's Dark Side

Heather Gehlert, AlterNet. May 3, 2007.

A conversation with human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro on the coastal city's violence and abuses -- and her lifelong mission to combat them.