United Nations Climate Change Conference begins.
Christiana Figueres - Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (F): If climate change is humanity’s biggest long-term challenge,it is also our greatest opportunity.

VOICE: Starting on November 29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 16) began convening for two weeks in Cancún, Mexico to negotiate towards an international agreement on countering climate change. Supreme Master Television reports on location.

Correspondent (M): After a year’s preparation since the December 2009 meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, climate change delegates arriving in Cancún from 180 countries are prepared to make further progress.
Their goal is to agree on a new legally binding treaty for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to replace the Kyoto Protocol that will expire in 2012. Achievements are expected especially in the areas of forestry protection, green technology transfer, and financial support for nations more vulnerable to climate change.

Christiana Figueres - Executive Secretary, UNFCCC (F): Expectations for Cancún are realistic, but there’s still a lot at stake if the world is going to stay below a two-degree temperature rise.

A Cancún deal isn’t going to solve the whole problem, but it can set a new pace for negotiations where governments lock in better agreements every year, never ruling out new possibilities or ignoring existing needs for the future.

Correspondent (M): Coinciding with the conference, November 27 was the opening day of Climate Change Village, which the Mexican government created as a space to promote further dialogue among non-governmental organizations, the private sector and the public during COP 16.

The bustling Climate Change Village also has two non-governmental sponsors, the Mexican Red Cross and the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association, whose booth served as an information center
for the organic vegan diet solution for global warming. Along with SOS flyers, books, DVDs, and Save Our Planet reusable shopping bags, tasty vegan foods were also distributed free of charge.

Visitors expressed keen interest in finding out more about the plant-based diet as a key climate action. Reporting from Cancún, Mexico for Supreme Master Television.

VOICE: Our gratefulness and best wishes to all the dedicated leaders and representatives at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. We pray for the most constructive outcomes that reflect the interest of all planetary inhabitants’ survival.

Supreme Master Ching Hai has frequently urged world governments toward their wisest use of leadership to stop climate change, as in a November 2009 videoconference in the United States.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5vqE0R0KWM
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-11/27/c_13625051.htm
http://www.cop16.mx/en/villacc/

Mexican school children return turtles to the sea.
On Friday, November 26, in the Oaxacan city of Salina Cruz in Mexico, some 180 children ranging from preschool up to elementary ages helped return 4,100 Olive Ridley turtles to the sea in an effort to boost the population of the endangered species.

They were assisted by the Mexican Navy, which has been placed in charge of protection efforts and had incubated these eggs specially for their release back into the wild. Lined up in a row, the children helped the baby turtles on their way to catch the ocean currents and thus return to their native habitat.

Bravo Mexican Navy personnel and Mexico for engaging youths in these compassionate and life-protecting actions. May many other countries be similarly motivated toward such loving care of the cherished turtles and all life on our planet.
http://www.tiempoenlinea.com.mx/,
http://www.itv.com/news/4000-turtles-released50089/

Extra News
Despite successful preservation efforts of the monarch butterfly in Mexico, the number migrating from the USA and Canada in winter 2009 dropped by a full 75% due to reduced vegetation from changing weather patterns.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101126/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_butterfly_threat
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-lt-mexico-butterfly-threat,0,1742457.story

Addressing a ministerial conference on health and environment, African Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Luís Gomes Sambo, states that extreme floods and droughts in many African countries is causing malnutrition, which in turn is also affecting the school performance of children.
http://malaysiandigest.com/world/12580-who-cycle-of-floods-droughts-aggravating-malnutrition-in-africa.html

A recent United Nations Environment Program report states that emission reductions pledged by governments thus far would still lead to an average global temperature rise of up to 4˚Celsius in the next century, resulting in catastrophic warming.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11813578
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/11/24/UNEP-urges-stepped-up-climate-fight/UPI-
80051290613250/