France to set up border checks for Paris United Nations climate talks

Border controls will be imposed by France for the UN Conference on Climate Change for just one month.

“France is going to close its borders for a few weeks”, he said in an interview on French television news channel BFMTV and radio station RMC, as a precaution against “a terrorist threat or risk to public order”.

Cazeneuve, speaking on BFM TV, noted that Europe’s Schengen border-free travel scheme allowed for controls to be temporarily restored for such events.

The Schengen Zone consists of 22 mainland European EU countries plus four non-EU states. Anti-globalisation protests really are similar assemblies of leading industrialised countries and characteristic.

With France still under heightened terror alert following January’s attacks and a series of botched attempts in the months since then, security at the conference will be tight. Seventeen people died when gunmen targeted Charlie Hebdo magazine staff, police officers and a Jewish supermarket.

The Paris Climate Conference, known as COP 21, kicks off on November 30.

US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be among more than 80 world leaders attending the opening.

The agreement will be backed by a roster of national pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.

Cazeneuve has rejected any links with the migrant crisis that Europe is facing with the massive arrival of Syrian migrants. Greece and Italy are the main entry points, and their reception centres are overwhelmed with the numbers, according to BBC.