Climate deal reached in Cancun

The world's governments approved a plan today to combat climate change, including a new "Green Climate Fund" to help poor nations. The deal happened during the international climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico.

Tim Gore, International Climate Change Policy Advisor at Oxfam, says it is not all he wanted, but he is happy with what was accomplished during the summit.

It isn’t every that is needed in the fight against climate change, that is clear,” he said. “But it does offer some hope that parties seriously are getting together, and taking real decisions. Some of which are going to deliver for poor people.”

The deal does not include a commitment to extend the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012, when its first period expires, but it would prevent a collapse of climate change negotiations and allow for
some modest advances on protecting the environment.

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