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    A Strong and Clear Call for Action from Costa Rican VP

    Blog | Thursday, 09 Dec 2010
    Costa Rica's Vice-President Alfio Piva gave a speech with sweeping historical references.  He began by pointing out that we were meeting on Mayan soil -- in a land where a great civilization used to...

    Some Powerful Words

    Blog | Wednesday, 08 Dec 2010
    At the session on cities and parliamentarians and their role in fighting climate change, Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City, gave an inspiring talk.  He comes fresh from hosting the World Mayors...

    COP16 Wednesday

    Blog | Wednesday, 08 Dec 2010
    When people ask me how I can do any good in a UN meeting, they are often surprised to find that being a Green places me in an influential group of Parliamentarians.  Greens around the world are in...

    More Speeches

    Blog | Tuesday, 07 Dec 2010
    Hon. Tillman Thomas, PM of Grenada: The countdown has started for the 2015 deadline set by the IPCC for the peaking and decline of GHG. After that it could be too late to protect our countries. We...

    Blogging Notes from the High Level Segment

    Blog | Tuesday, 07 Dec 2010
    President of Guatemala: "This is a crisis of principles and values. It is not a question of how much money I am going to make. It is a question of how many lives I am going to save." President of...

    COP16 Tuesday Update

    Blog | Tuesday, 07 Dec 2010
    I had a wonderful meeting last night with an inspiring group of Canadian youth. We went around the circle at their low rent hostel in the centre of Cancun as they introduced themselves and where they...

    Sir Nicholas Stern on Canada

    Blog | Monday, 06 Dec 2010
    After his talk, I asked Sir Nicholas what he made of the Canadian PM, who has a degree in economics but claims that meeting necessary GHG reduction targets will cost "millions of jobs." He replied, "...

    COP16 - Monday

    Blog | Monday, 06 Dec 2010
    The economic case for a low carbon path was presented by Sir Nicholas Stern, former Senior Economist to the World Bank and author of the landmark Stern Review. Five years ago, he presented his...

    Sunday - More Informal Session

    Blog | Sunday, 05 Dec 2010
    Colombia speaking passionately about naming the "elephant in the room--  the ghost of Copenhagen."  We must overcome the ghost of Copenhagen. The tragedies caused by failing to take action. We are...