UNFCCC Media Alert

UN's top climate change official sees significant chances for Latin America in swift implementation of Cancun Agreements

(Madrid, 15 February 2011) - Speaking at the Conference of the Secretariat
General Iberoamericana, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said
that Latin America had a number of key opportunities to take climate change
action to the next level - both in adaptation and in mitigation - and that
it was important that these opportunities be fully capitalised, notably
through the Cancun Agreements.

http://unfccc.int/files/press/statements/application/pdf/speech_segib_20110215.pdf

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