France to ban rallies near Paris climate talks

The U.N’s top global warming official expressed her “deep pain” in the wake of the attacks, but Christiana Figueres said nothing about cancelling the climate summit that’s expected to yield a global treaty to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

A meeting on Monday, November 16, was set by climate activists to decide the final course of action for the march.

“Our struggle for climate justice does not stop”, the statement read. “We have a duty to stand up and continue to fight for a just and livable planet for all”. In a statement emailed later, Rousseau’s organization said: “COP21 cannot take place without the participation or without the mobilizations of civil society in France”. The summit, he said, is a chance for world leaders to show they are in solidarity after the attacks, reports Reuters.

The conference is meant to crown six years of tough negotiations after talks broke down during the previous attempt at clinching a global deal, in Copenhagen in 2009. Thousands of people are expected to take part in the march. “It’s an affirmation of our common humanity and the shared future we need to defend”.

“It’s a 55-page text and we are trying to see how we can strategise Fiji’s position coming out of the Suva Declaration, the National Climate Change Summit from Levuka and see how we can advance a few of these issues”, said Mr Emberson.

Diane Connors, a regional organizer with the Council of Canadians in Edmonton, is still heading to Paris with a 17-member strong youth delegation.

Environmentalist AL Gore stopped his Reality and Live Earth climate change webcast, which was supposed to run 24 hours from the Eiffel Tower, in the afternoon after the assaults. Scheduled performers included Pharrell, Elton John, Hozier, Neil Young, Mumford & Sons, Stroll the Moon, Thirty Seconds to Mars & Florence & the Machine. According to the Wall Street Journal, France had planned to reinstate border controls during the conference as a security measure, something they have now already done in response to Friday’s attacks.

Paris expects around 40.000 delegates from 195 countries. Activists, however, want to march as planned.

In a news release Sunday Bentley said, “After full consideration of this weekend’s attacks of terror on innocent citizens in Paris, I will oppose any attempt to relocate Syrian refugees to Alabama through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program”. Coalition Climat 21 is helping to coordinate a major climate march on November 29, as well as various “non-violent direct action” events, including so-called “blockades”.

“The world we have always defended is not the one we saw on that night”.

“Leaders recognized that increased investments in clean energy technologies and related research and development will help tackle climate change”, the White House said in a fact sheet.