Member Robinson will speak at the Seminar “The Route to Mexico: Challenges and opportunities for a global agreement”, in Cancun. The objective of the meeting is to explore climate related opportunities and challenges for the Americas vis a vis upcoming COP 16 to be held in Mexico City at the end of 2010. The Seminar will take place in the framework of the Fifty-first Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Investment Corporation. Other participants to the event will be Mr. Rajendra K. Pachauri. Director General of TERI and Chairman of the IPCC and Mr. José Mario Molina-Pasquel Henríquez, 1995 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat to the Earth's ozone layer of chlorofluorocarbon gases (or CFCs).