Conference of Parties - #COP21

Live news and updates from the Conference of Parties - #COP21 The 2015 Paris Climate Conference

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JUAN HERNANDEZ, PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS:
For Honduras, climate change is a matter of life and death. The figures don’t add up ... we are not all equally responsible.
"We haven’t come cap in hand ... we come to show you how much we suffer."

by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 4:46:22 PM
Delegates attend the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference:

REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 4:46:28 PM
As climate talks continue, our graphics team illustrates the problem of rising temperatures:

by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 4:48:46 PM
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses COP21, saying that climate change can also constitute an opportunity for jobs and growth:
COP21 - Paris 2015
@COP21
.@JustinTrudeau "le changement climatique est également une opportunité. Il peut apporter des emplois et de la croissance" #COP21
4:49 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 4:52:02 PM
Adam Greenberg
@Pragmactivist99
Trudeau talks about leadership from indigenous folks, young people, and other key constituencies. #COP21
4:52 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 4:53:39 PM
Megan Rowling
@meganrowling
.@avaaz says final turnout count for #climate marches around the world on Nov 29 was 785,000 ppl with 24 countries breaking records #COP21
4:51 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 4:53:43 PM
Shinzo abe, PM of Japan now charing session: "Today we must demonstrate our ability to overcome overwhelming challenges with solidarity. 18 years ago the Kyoto Protocol was adopted but global average temperature has been on a gradual rise ever since. Beautiful islands now face the risk of submersion. We must hand the earth down safely to generations of our children and grandchildren. The present INDCs are unlikely alone to achieve the 2 degree C goal. I would like the Paris conference to set a review process (to measure ambition)." - Reuters reporters.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 4:54:56 PM
Malcolm Turnbull, PM of Australia: "From Australia we come with confidence and optimism. We are not daunted by our challenge. we do not doubt the implications of the science or the scale of the challenge. Here in Paris Australia supports a new and truly global climate agreement, which should support a new wave of technological advances.....I join countries call for a strong and effective agreement. Our target represents real economic effort. We will meet and beat our 2020 emissions reduction target and Australia will ratify the second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol."

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 4:56:05 PM
COP21en
@COP21en
.@JustinTrudeau "climate change is also a historical opportunity. We can create job, we can create growth" #COP21 https://t.co/RoN2ZAeetY
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5:48 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 4:57:36 PM
Narendra Modi
@narendramodi
The #COP21 Summit is historic. We have come together to shape the future of our world & health of our planet. https://t.co/P8YrQicoJF
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2:41 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 4:57:46 PM
COP21en
@COP21en
His majesty Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein, king of Jordan is speaking #COP21 https://t.co/GC2ot4drEp
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5:36 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 4:58:01 PM
Obama, Putin discuss Syria, Ukraine at summit - White House
Reuters UKU.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syria crisis and the situation in Ukraine during a meeting Monday on the sidelines of the climate summit in Paris, a White House official said.

by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 5:01:48 PM
The gaps in current government policies and pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:

by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 5:01:54 PM
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country, which dropped out of the Kyoto Protocol when it was on track to emit too much greenhouse gases, said he would contribute to a strong deal.
"Canada is back, my good friends, we are here to help to build an agreement that will do our children and our grand children proud". - Reuters reporters.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:02:46 PM
John Englart EAM
@takvera
Some hard jostling for camera space at #fossiloftheday #cop21 very popular daily event by @CANIntl https://t.co/hMt2diOnl2
6:05 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:09:12 PM
John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand:
John Key
@johnkeypm
I’ve announced we’ll make an additional contribution to help research to reduce agricultural emissions. #COP21 https://t.co/l1MeDxMX9y
5:08 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 5:09:55 PM
VIDEO: Bill Gates has recruited billionaires such as Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to boost R&D in clean energy. Fred Katayama reports.

by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 5:14:49 PM
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat:
Joseph Muscat
@JosephMuscat_JM
#Malta's proudly #gender imbalanced delegation at @cop21 -JM https://t.co/TtJb4pcgQ2
5:10 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 5:17:17 PM
Sani Ayouba
@saniayoub
#COP21 #GOCOP21 #Fossiloftheday award to belguin and New zeland https://t.co/P73hVPo6vC
6:19 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:22:40 PM
U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande (C) and Bill Gates (R) take part in the launch of Mission Innovation, a landmark commitment to dramatically accelerate public and private global clean energy innovation, during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Paris. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

by cassandra.garrison 11/30/2015 5:22:49 PM
Russian Vladimir Putin (C), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker attend a meeting on the sidelines of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris. REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin

by cassandra.garrison 11/30/2015 5:23:39 PM
PM Tsipras, Greece: The COP 21 has to be a historic breakthrough. It has to speed up global transformation toward sustainable society. we are here to take decisions that bind us all... In Greece, despite our economic crisis...climate change is high on our agenda" - Reuters reporters.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:26:30 PM
Conservation Intl
@ConservationOrg
Listen to a special call to action from Harrison Ford for #COP21 in Paris. https://t.co/fEFZvVHWmP #INeedNature https://t.co/5yUvacnTeS
6:22 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:28:13 PM
United Nations
@UN
Watch Indian PM @narendramodi 's message to the world from the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. #COP21 https://t.co/l3BmzFVgxP
6:29 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:33:49 PM
UK PM David Cameron is speaking.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:36:50 PM
Cameron says almost every point that needs to be made has been made. There must be a deal for the poorest and most vulnerable, a deal with five year review, a deal that can be measured and a deal that suits the richest and the poorest.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:37:41 PM
Check out our climate change sentiment tracker to see how different groups are reacting to the COP21 conference on social media:

by elizabeth.culliford 11/30/2015 5:37:41 PM
David Cameron says he wants to turn the equation around in his speech. He asks 'What was so difficult?" "Was it difficult to agree on two degrees?" He's talking from a view point in the future where we would have to explain to future generations about why we might have found it difficult to make change.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:38:55 PM
David Cameron's scenario continues - how can we argue to our grandchildren that it was too difficult to agree to a measurement and verification system to the agreement.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:40:34 PM
Cameron asks - Will we really argue that it was too difficult to transfer technologies to poor and vulnerable countries. So why didn't we do it? He says instead of making excuses in the future, we need to make change today and just do it.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:41:24 PM
Abdelmalek Sellal, Prime Minister of Algeria: "We share the grief of the French people following the terrorist attacks which swept away such precious human life"..."Like terrorism, climate change knows no borders" - Reuters reporters

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:50:38 PM
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) talks with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they attend a meeting on Carbon Pricing on the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:53:48 PM
Bate Felix Tabi Tabe
@BateFelix
Hollande, Merkel, Trudeau and other world leaders back carbon pricing #COP21 https://t.co/fFMXypuyzH
6:54 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:55:06 PM
Fossil of the Day
@FossiloftheDay
Thanks for joining the first #FossilOfTheDay for #COP21. #Belgium and #NewZealand are in the lead to be the worst! https://t.co/a97zwxdjG6
6:40 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:56:17 PM
WCC Climate
@WCCclimate
It is now time and unique opportunity to act together and take care of creation, agreed faith leaders at #cop21. https://t.co/njZEQnXF9u
5:20 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 5:59:01 PM
Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga, chairing one of the sessions, urged leaders to stick to the 3 minute rule when they were long behind time - Reuters reporter

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 6:02:16 PM
Sigmundur Davíd Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland: "the ice in iceland could disappear in under a decade" - Reuters reporter

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 6:02:45 PM
Indian PM Modi has the floor.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 6:04:27 PM
Modi - I speak in admiration of your resilience and resolve. (He's referencing the Paris attacks).
Over the next few days we will decide the fate of this planet.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 6:05:33 PM
People and planet are inseparable - Modi. By 2030 we will reduce emissions by 33-25% and produce 40% of our power from non-fossil fuels.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 6:07:26 PM
Adam Greenberg
@Pragmactivist99
Among the most powerful moments of #COP21 today was the powerful speech by the President of Marshall Islands. https://t.co/iVGoBoavsQ
6:57 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 6:09:46 PM
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) delivers a speech as French President Francois Hollande (2ndL), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (2ndR) listen to during a meeting to launch the 'Mission Innovation: Accelerating the Clean Energy Revolution' on the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Ian Langsdon/Pool

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 6:16:04 PM
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of the State of Holy See "COP21 is a crucial stage in a process which will definitely not end in 2015. This agreement needs to set up commitment review processes and follow up procedures which seek gradually to increase our level of our ambition and ensure proper monitoring" .... "The pope encourages us to ensure COP21 lea ds to an adopting of an agreement with a clear ethical orientation transmitting clear signals to all stakeholders" - Reuters reporter.

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 6:17:14 PM
(L-R) Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a meeting to launch the 'Mission Innovation: Accelerating the Clean Energy Revolution' on the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Ian Langsdon/Pool

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 6:18:04 PM
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is seen silhouetted before delivering a speech during the opening session of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

by jamillah.knowles 11/30/2015 6:19:19 PM

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