Paris In Security Lockdown For Climate Summit

He said almost 15,000 police and security personnel had now been deployed to the borders to enforce the controls, which were first put in place to ensure security at COP21 climate talks scheduled to begin Monday in Paris.

Paris – The authorities have refused entry of some 1,000 people in France considering security risk ahead of the world climate summit in Paris being held in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks earlier this month.

US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, will be among more than 140 leaders attending the start of the summit. One detainee, who identified herself as Amélie to France 24 News source, stated she is unable to go away her town of Rennes, she must register at the local cops officers station 3 times a day, and she or he is prohibited from leaving her home between the hours of 8pm & 6am.

PERTH/PAIRS – Tens of thousands of people joined one of the biggest global days of climate change activism on Sunday, from Sydney to Berlin, to put pressure on world leaders to unite at a summit in Paris in fighting global warming.

This despite a ban on protests imposed by the state of emergency in France.

About 683,000 people attended the rallies around the world, said Sam Barrat, a spokesman for Avaaz, one of the organisers.

Among the high heels and sandals were a pair of plain black shoes sent by Pope Francis, who has been a vocal advocate for action to prevent unsafe climate change, and jogging shoes from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

“This is not civil disobedience”, she said. Many environmental activists want a phaseout of fossil fuels and a shift to 100-percent renewable energies by 2050. Some marches were held on Friday and Saturday, from Melbourne to Edinburgh. Yesterday, faith groups delivered a series of petitions signed by 1.8 million people urging stronger action, collected on pilgrimages to Paris.

“The time for talking is long over”, said Naderev Saño of the Philippines, who walked 1,500 kilometers from Rome. French President Francois Hollande accused the violent protesters of dishonouring the memory of the dead.

The climate talks will see 195 countries coming together to try to come to an agreement on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020.

“If we don’t do that, the people will say: Enough of Europe”, Valls warned.

The last attempt to forge a global deal, the ill-tempered 2009 Copenhagen summit, foundered upon divisions between rich and poor countries.