Over the next two weeks, world leaders will be deciding our climate future at the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. TckTckTck team members will be in Cancun tracking their progress towards a fair, ambitious and legally-binding climate treaty.

Our hub of activity during Cancun is live.tcktcktck.org. We've rebuilt this site to include daily updated content from our partners at Adopt-a-Negotiator, OneClimate and other NGOs. We're also aggregating news stories in Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. You are welcome to repost any of our articles, photos and videos on your sites, provided you cite us as the source and link back to us.

Plus, starting December 1st, TckTckTck partner OneClimate is producing a live interactive show everyday from the COP16 Climate Summit. This 4 hour daily show was very popular during the Tianjin climate talks in October. If you have a website, you can embed the OneClimate feed using the following snippet of HTML:

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While we know it's unlikely there will be a binding deal signed in Cancun, we still hope for one. And, if not, that the delegates will be able to develop a strong, meaningful framework for a deal to be signed within the next two years. The earth and its people urgently need more of the real solutions, as they already exist, solutions that achieve a fairer and safer low-carbon world.

The UN climate deal we need:

FAIR

  • Reduce developed country emissions by at least 40% by 2020 from 1990 levels.
  • Enable and support poor countries to adapt to the worst consequences of the climate crisis, reduce their emissions and ensure technology sharing including through the provision of sufficient public funds.
  • Protect marginalized communities in rich and poor countries.

AMBITIOUS

  • Create a pathway to clean jobs and clean energy for all.
  • Ensure that global greenhouse emissions peak no later than 2015 and then decline steeply on a pathway to ensure concentrations return to less than 350ppm in the atmosphere.
  • Individual country targets and development plans must align with the goal of returning to less than 1.5 degrees warming.

BINDING

  • Agree to a legally binding international agreement that can be verified and enforced.