Cancun building blocks: essential steps on the road to a fair, ambitious and binding deal
This document outlines the balanced package of outcomes from Cancun, and the benchmark by which CAN's 500 member NGOs, and their millions of supporters, will judge the Cancun negotiations. It identifies building blocks which (i) provide a pathway for preventing catastrophic climate change and (ii) pave a road which can be travelled, even taking into account political constraints.
Among other recommendations, it advocates for COP 16 (i) to establish an adaptation framework along with its institutions, goals and principles; as well as (ii) to decide on measures to promote risk management strategies, and to address loss and damage caused by climate change, both extreme events (eg. Extreme flooding) and slow-onset risks that go beyond the limits of adaptation (eg. sea level rise, glacial retreat or desertification); and for COP 17 (iii) to agree on a mechanism on loss and damage, as well as (iv) on a comprehensive and integrated approach to building resilience of poor communities and countries.