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As Ministers began arriving in Cancun, negotiations started to pick up steam. On Monday evening efforts continued to reach agreement on aspects of the long-term vision that would shape any new agreement. As the second week begins, everyone is awa ...

LA Times journalist Margot Roosevelt interviews Ronny Jumeau, Seychelles Ambassador to the United Nations and MSV partner, during the COP negotiations in Cancun.  Excerpts from the article Members of the Alliance of Small Island States, alre ...

Kirt Ejesiak is the Vice-President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council - Canada, a partner in MSV. Kirt took part in the MSV side event and spoke to Climate Change TV about what the Inuit want to see happen in Cancun. Click here to access the video ...

“You have been negotiating all my life. You cannot tell me you need more time.” Those words were spoken by Christina Ora,  a youth delegate from the Solomon Islands to the plenary of COP 15 in Copenhagen last year. This year they are emblazo ...

UNEP has featured several photos from Portraits of Resilience, a project which trains youth in the Arctic and small islands developing states in the use of photography and other digital media. It brings the faces and perspectives of these y ...

That comment came from Seychelles UN Ambassador Ronny Jumeau at today’s Many Strong Voices side event in Cancun. There are negotiations and there are side events. The former is where the official business is done. Side events are where ideas beg ...

On the second day of the COP, traffic chaos settled down and negotiations began in earnest. One of the key issues is the need to settle on a vision for the future. That’s the responsibility of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Act ...