French police clash with climate protesters in Paris

Organizers in New Zealand said they saw the largest climate marches to date, with about 15,000 hitting the streets in Auckland for a rally that ended with people slapping their thighs and sticking out their tongues for what they called the “People’s Climate Haka”.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was among the protesters in London urging politicians to broker a binding agreement at the talks in Paris.

Corbyn told the crowd that the talks were “an enormous opportunity” to tackle “pollution, climate change, inequality, environmental refugees, war refugees and resources wars. Because we are dealing with something that people find hard to grasp, party because of uncertainties and because risks are in the future and the impacts are distributed, I think people are not really as aware of what’s at stake here”, he said.

Whilst the developed world is wanting to place higher burden on developing places like India while in the fight climate change their emphasis on the responsibility of most thinks relevance.

Meanwhile, people are turning up in full force in other cities including Berlin, Barcelona, Jakarta, Nairobi and countless others around the world to demand climate action. Activists organised the human chain in place of a march that was banned for security reasons after the attacks.

He is also tipped to hold a bilateral meeting with US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the summit.

The “ambitious” effort to develop clean energies initially involves eight countries – France, the U.S., India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Canada and Norway – according to a French official, who asked not to be named for lack of authorization to speak.

In its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) also known as climate action plans which has been submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), India has laid stress on increase of renewable energy.

The money would focus on research and development of technologies such as energy storage, which could make better use of clean power from wind and solar regardless of the vagaries of weather.

The Commonwealth – a grouping of Britain and many of its former colonies – covers more than 2 billion people.

The summit which is also called the Conference of Parties (COP21) is witnessing the participation of all heads of states in the beginning of the event as the French government did not want a situation like COP in Copenhagen where all the leaders came at the end of the conference which could not decide on anything concrete. A photo taken of the group in heart-shaped formation will be sent to the climate change meeting in Paris, according to organisers.

There were chants of “State of emergency, police state”, in reference to the state of emergency rules enforced following the massacre by Islamic State extremists on 13 November, in which 130 people were killed.

Pope Francis is among those displaying 10,000 pairs of shoes on the Place de la Republique, after a giant climate change march in Paris was cancelled because of security concerns.

Earlier in the day, under sullen November skies, a small group of indigenous people from Pacific Islands and North America gathered opposite the Bataclan to pray and conduct a quiet healing ceremony, aimed at demonstrating their unity with Paris. 11 will try to hash out the broadest, most lasting deal to date to slow global warming.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he’s deeply concerned about tensions between Russia and Turkey after Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian warplane last week.