Even as world leaders, in a “very hopeful moment”, descend upon the city in hopes of reaching an agreement to halt climate change, the main variable setting apart the 2015 Paris Climate Conference are the realities of global security, according to Charles Sennott, the founder and executive director of the GroundTruth Project. One image, included below, takes aim at Vokswagen’s large-scale diesel emissions-fixing scandal. Interesting. More than 600 posters have been placed around Paris. The corporate sponsors of the talks have been targeted by the posters, which say that they are “part of the problem”.
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PM Calls For Global Action On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Prime Minister John Key today presented UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres with a message from close to 40 nations calling for the removal of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.
World leaders were also part of the campaign.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris, French police have discouraged mass protests over the COP21 Climate Conference. It follows a separate visual display on Sunday, when tens of thousands of shoes were arranged in the Place de la Republique in Paris to symbolize the large numbers that were expected to march before France imposed a ban on the demonstration.
In fact, many state and regional governments have already committed to the Under 2 MOU – driven by The Climate Group States & Regions Alliance members of California and Baden-Württemberg – which commits governments to reduce their emissions by 80-95% based on a 1990 baseline, or to achieve a per capita emissions target of less than 2 metric tons by 2050.
The Brandalism campaign said it was behind the unauthorised artworks.
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One of the artists taking part said in a statement, “We are taking their spaces back because we want to challenge the role advertising plays in promoting unsustainable consumerism”.
