Press Release

19.08.2010

Mexican diplomacy in the rescue of Cancun climate

change summit
Mexican leading figures are trying to restore confidence and bring developing countries
back on the board ahead of Cancun climate change summit.

Leading figures in the Mexican negotiating team are trying to save the upcoming UN climate change
summit in Cancun from collapse in a bout of frantic diplomacy. They have spent the past few weeks
attempting to restore confidence in the negotiating process after the most recent round of talks in
Bonn ended in a standoff between industrialised and developing countries.

Fernando Tudela, Mexico's chief negotiator, said the host nation accepted the Cancun summit would
not deliver an international climate change treaty, but insisted a "spectacular breakthrough" was still
possible. Tudela said the Cancun summit would aim to deliver "a set of meaningful decisions" on
issues such as climate financing and adaptation, while also engineering an end to the "regime
standoff" that has marred past negotiations.

Mexican officials are actively developing countries that felt ignored in previous climate
change summits

Tudela's colleagues have been attempting to lay the foundation for an advance over the past few
weeks by reaching out to those countries that have repeatedly blocked climate change negotiations.
Also, Mexican officials are actively courting those developing countries that have "felt excluded"
from the negotiations. The nations that admitted being frustrated by their exclusion from the
Copenhagen climate change summit include Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea,
Pakistan, the Gulf states, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Colombia.

Mexico's climate ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba said “We have a very clear understanding that
this is a process that needs to have everybody involved, not only the major [greenhouse gas]
emitters." He also revealed that Mexico was attempting to broker a deal with African countries to
ensure they are better prepared for the next round of climate change talks.

Meanwhile, Patricia Espinosa, Mexico's minister for foreign affairs, who will chair the COP15 meeting
in the Cancun summit, this week travelled to India to meet with the country's influential
environment minister Jairam Ramesh. According to reports in the Hindustan Times, Espinosa told
Ramesh that "an ambitious outcome at the global meet requires India's sustained political guidance
and support." The two countries' negotiating teams also discussed their respective positions ahead
of the Cancun climate change summit, particularly with regards to carbon emission targets and
technology transfer arrangements.

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