Although a string of terrorist attacks across Beirut, Baghdad, and Paris in November left nearly 200 people dead, the French government has vowed to push on with the United Nations Climate Summit (COP21). “A lot of concerts and festivities will be canceled”.
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Leaders of the world’s top economies on Monday backed a drive to curb catastrophic climate change at an upcoming United Nations conference in Paris, according to a statement drawn up in tough, all-night talks.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have confirmed they will attend the conference.
France had already reinstated border controls before the assault, and will raise police deployment for the talks scheduled to happen at the Le Bourget airfield in the north of Paris between November 30 and December 11.
Given still-rising global emissions, the Paris talks have widely been referred to as a “last chance” in slowing humanity’s adverse impact on the climate.
Fabius said Sunday on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Turkey that the decision to conduct airstrikes in Raqqa against Islamic State targets was a “political” one and that France had to be “present and active” following Friday’s attacks that killed 129 people.
The article said rapid economic growth was impossible without guaranteed energy security in the APEC region and fair and long-term climate regulation.
Gore’s aim is to raise awareness about global warming a few weeks before world leaders gather for the COP 21 Paris climate summit opening November 30.
Civil society organizations from around the world have been organizing for months in the lead-up to the COP21 talks, where they will hold an alternative people’s summit, as well as stage mass protests to pressure heads of state to address the climate crisis.
He said one of the objectives of the meeting in Vienna is to see concretely “how we can intensify the global coordination in the struggle against ISIL”. In scope and tone, there were echoes of the Olympics, with representatives from 127 countries gathering in the spirit of peace and cooperation, and thousands of onlookers flocking to cheer them on to a successful climate agreement.
The murderous attacks were a shock to negotiators, who have been concentrating on working out a climate deal and not on the security aspects of the summit.
The news service points to a March study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that claims drought and man-made climate change may be among the underlying causes of the conflict in Syria.
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Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said he did not think the attacks would affect the outcome of the climate conference, which is due to agree a plan to restrict greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020.
