United Nations Climate Change Conference Starts Today

Cancun Meeting November 29 - December 10

Expectations Significantly Reduced From Two Years Ago

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) is being held in Cancun, Mexico and includes the sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 16). The Conference of the Parties is to discuss future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol.  The final conference before the Kyoto Protocol Treaty expires in 2012 will be in Johannesburg, South in December 2011.