In the run up of COP 16 in Cancún/Mexico, CLIMATE 2010 features a new video podcast in which the Parliamentary State Secretary Katherina Reiche, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in Germany, encourages the worldwide participants to seize the innovative online-climate conference for networking, discussing newest findings in climate research and for developing sustainable solutions.

The conference organizers received more than 130 abstracts from all parts of the world. After successful peer review, all full scientific papers will be accessible online from 1 Nov 2010 on on this platform.

Dr Norbert Roettgen, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the patron of the upcoming online climate conference CLIMATE 2010. Read more about the minister and his ministry's International Climate Initiative on the patronage or read the full press release.

March 22 is World Water Day - organized by CLIMATE 2010's partner UNEP and further supporting organizations. Communicating water quality challenges and opportunities is at the heart of this event. More about the World Water Day at www.worldwaterday2010.info.