As It Happens host Carol Off spoke to Eros Sana today. Because if it is cancelled, “terrorism wins”, said French energy minister Ségolène Royal.
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“The situation created by the awful attacks of November 13 and the investigations conducted require security measures to be reinforced”, Laurent Fabius, the foreign minister, said in the statement. The fact that our claim to maintain our mobilization was legitimate, even though the last attack on Paris – this will be something that we have to take in mind. The 2C goal has guided the long-running talks – held under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – since 2009.
ES: For the moment we don’t know exactly what the limitations are. The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will start to melt at an unstoppable pace, if we keep going on with the same ignorant attitude towards the environment, prompting a catastrophic rise in global sea levels.
“On 29 November, we march!”.
In the midst of a national state of emergency and massive anti-terror deployment, it might be hard to free up the 5,000-odd police and military police required to secure the November 29 rally, a security source told AFP.
Negotiators from the largest industrialized nations have been unable to agree on key ingredients of the deal that would be signed in Paris, including the review process for enforcing nations’ targets for reduction in greenhouse gas output.
CO: This is one of the most important summits in the history of the climate change effort.
“The government can prohibit these demonstrations, but our voices will not be silenced”, Nicolas Haeringer, French campaigner for 350.org, said in a statement.
“Our expectation is that the kinds of commitments that people will make will be significant and that they will be verifiable and transparent”, Earnest said. It’s a security matter.
Antoine Lippen, a regular customer of the bars and cafes that came under fire in central Paris Friday, is one.
But additional protests in Paris, such as plans to block roads and form human chains at the Place de la République, scheduled for December 12, “are still under negotiation”, Henn said. French authorities have already reinstated border controls.
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He added that taking part in the global march events is a “powerful way of showing solidarity with the people of Paris, Beirut and everywhere that is impacted by violent conflict. COP 21 is not an end in itself: we are citizens of the world, and we are building a movement that will only be strengthened after this summit and beyond”.
