Press coverage of Cancun

Casual readers of newspapers would be forgiven if they did not realize that a global climate change conference was underway. Over the past week I've seen only a couple stories about it in the various news outlets I scan. None of the US nightly news broadcasts mentioned Cancun last week.

Amy Goodman is broadcasting from COP16 during this final week. Here is one of her stories today, pointedly commenting on the lack of press (especially in comparison to Copenhagen) - although as one of Mike's first posts points out, part of this is logistics.

Some other good interviews on the program that you may wish to check out:

• Comments from representatives of indigenous and other groups on why they came to Cancun for the alternative climate summit
  
• Venezuela's chief climate negotiator, Claudia Salerno, on the state of the talks