Authorities Cancel Massive Paris Climate Rallies After Attacks

Throughout the weekend of December 5 and 6, organizers will hold the People’s Climate Summit in Montreuil, a suburb outside of Paris. However several news outlets have reported that unnecessary side events surrounding the conference will be canceled. Huge numbers were expected in Paris, but those people will not be silenced.

The march, which is scheduled to happen in Paris on November 29, has been cancelled by the French Government because of the “heightened security situation” in Paris. We know that a number of marches will be organized, you know, in different places across all continents on November 28th and 29th, and we want them to march in solidarity with us, on our behalf and in our name.

350.org and about 130 other organisations including labour unions and faith groups have been aiming to stage one of the biggest climate change rallies in history, rivalling one in NY in 2014 that organisers said attracted 310,000 people.

They have had to rethink their plans following attacks by militant Islamists in Paris last Friday that killed 129 people.

Bonn/Washington – At least 80 world leaders are still expected in Paris on November 30 for the opening of global climate talks, despite the terrorist attacks on France, the head of the UN’s climate change programme said Wednesday.

“Potential curtailment of civil society activities could have a negative effect on the necessary political pressure for increasing the level of ambition and quality of the agreement overall”, he said.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt believes the deadly Paris attacks will boost the determination of world leaders to strike a climate change deal in the French capital.

Mr. Morano, whose film “Climate Hustle” is slated to premiere in Paris during the summit, called it “nothing short of bonkers to think that a United Nations climate summit could help reduce terrorism or improve world peace”.

In 2008, Chile launched its first National Climate Change Action Plan, for the period from 2008 to 2014, to gather information on what was happening in the country, identify the baselines for emissions cuts and measure other key variables. 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”. So, all of these issues must connect in Paris and make sure that, actually, now we even have more of a leverage to get a strong climate agreement in Paris.

We further recall that this mobilization will be global: hundreds of thousands of people will mobilize during the two weeks of negotiations of the COP21 and representatives from the Global South and the Global North will be present in Paris.