Be optimistic about Cancun, says Mexico

The concerted attempt over the past few months to lower expectations from the Cancun conference on climate change has not gone down well with Mexico.

On Tuesday, Mexico responded by saying that Cancun can deliver results, and that the world community needs to be “ambitious yet pragmatic and realistic” when it comes to dealing with climate change.

Mexico’s ambassador for climate change Luis Alfonso de Alba said, “it is irresponsible and contrary to common objective to say that we can’t achieve something in Cancun. The second mistake is to say that what we cant achieve in Cancun will happen in South Africa.”

Mexico has argued that the bar of expectation was set too high in Copenhagen, which is why it failed to achieve its stated goal of an agreement. Over the last few months, there has been increased pessimism over the possible outcome at Cancun , many leaders have suggested that a deal would possibly be worked out at the Cape Town conference in 2011.

An important impact that Mexico hopes to make in Cancun and during its presidency of the conference of parties is to “restore faith and confidence in the process.” A fall out of the Copenhagen conference where a small group of countries negotiated the Copenhagen accord and then presented it to the plenary session of the conference of parties as a fait accompli helped to erode the trust in the climate change negotiation process. This appears to be the effort by the UNFCCC as well. Outgoing executive secretary Yvo de Boer has also said that “rebuilding the trust” was an important goal. According to Mr de Boer, movement on the $30 billion fast track funding would represent an important step in this trust rebuilding exercise.

via economictimes.indiatimes.com

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