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Global protests on climate change
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Protesters joined a worldwide wave of marches on Saturday, demanding leaders craft a pact to avert a climate catastrophe when they gather in a still-shaken Paris.
Protesters joined a worldwide wave of marches on Saturday, demanding leaders craft a pact to avert a climate catastrophe when they gather in a still-shaken Paris.
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From Australia to the Philippines, Bangladesh to Japan, people rallied at the start of a weekend of popular protests pleading for world powers to overcome the logjams when the UN climate summit officially opens in the French capital Monday.
“Protect our common home,” declared placards held aloft as thousands gathered in Melbourne. Some 150 leaders including US President Barack Obama, China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the start of the Paris conference, which is tasked with reaching the first truly universal climate pact, binding 195 nations to new emission limits from 2020.
The goal is to limit average global warming to two degrees Celsius, perhaps even less, over pre-Industrial Revolution levels by curbing fossil fuel emissions blamed for climate change.
If they fail to do so, scientists warn of a world that is increasingly inhospitable to human life, with superstorms, dro-ught, and rising sea levels swamping the land.
On the eve of Saturday’s protests, French President Francois Hollande, host of the November 30-December 11 talks, warned of the obstacles ahead. The French leader called for “a binding agreement, a universal agreement, one that is ambitious.
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