The irony behind having the Climate Change negotiations be in Cancun.

by Moisés Flores Baca "Cancun is the best example of ecosystems predation..." reads the first line of the cartoon above, published today by the left-wing newspaper "LaJornada", "The fact that it is the place where the environmental summit meant to save the planet is happening there seems to be a joke", reads the line in the middle. It is fair to acknowledge that LaJornada normally goes way over...

Day 2: Low expectations: How did we get here?

by Juan Soriano The sixteenth session of the climate change negotiations opened yesterday at the Moon Palace Resort in Cancun, Mexico. A year has passed from the meeting in Copenhagen which failed to deliver a fair, ambitious, and binding deal. As opposed to last year’s high expectations in Copenhagen, this year expectations are rather low. Both countries and observer organizations are seeing...