UN Climate Change Chief Urges Nations to Find Common Ground at Climate Talks

The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has called on governments meeting in Tianjin, China, to accelerate their search for common ground to achieve strong action on climate change.

Tianjin, China - With less than two months to go before the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Ms. Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said that a concrete outcome in December was urgently needed to restore faith in the ability of Parties to take the negotiations forward. "Governments have restored their own trust in the process, but they must ensure that the rest of the world believes in a future of ever increasing government commitment to combat climate change," she said. "Governments need to agree on what is doable in Cancun, and how it will be achievable in a politically balanced manner," she added. Click here to read more...