COP21: Paris climate deal 'more likely' after terror attacks

[nitpicker]

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34950442

COP21: Paris climate deal 'more likely' after terror attacks

By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, BBC News, Paris

2 hours ago
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The gathering of 147 heads of state and government is set to be far bigger than the 115 or so who came to Copenhagen in 2009, the last time the world came close to agreeing a long term deal on climate change.

While many leaders including Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping were always set to attend this conference, the recent violent attacks in Paris have encouraged others to come in an expression of solidarity with the French people.

Unlike at Copenhagen, the French organisers are bringing the leaders in at the start of the conference rather than waiting for them to come in at the end, a tactic which failed spectacularly in the Danish capital.

Delegates are in little doubt that the shadow cast over the city by the attacks will enhance the chances of agreement.

"I believe that it will make a deal more likely, because what I feel from the parties is that they are very eager to move," said Amjad Abdulla from the Maldives, who chairs the Alliance of Small Island States in the negotiations.

A former UK government adviser on climate change and now chairman of environmental think tank E3G, Tom Burke, believes that some leaders will push the line that, by tackling rising temperatures, you remove one of the causes of terrorism.
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[drm604]

1. Not to mention how intimately oil is related to Islamic Terrorism.

There's more than one reason to stop using oil. Stop burning oil and you cut off a major source of funding for groups like ISIS.