Forget Paris? -- New Internationalist

Forget Paris? -- New Internationalist



 World leaders and country negotiators will gather from 30 November to 11
December for COP21 (the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN
climate convention). Their stated aim is a binding international treaty
to keep global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius above
pre-industrial levels, to come into effect in 2020. Everyone in the
climate world is talking about Paris. Jess Worth and Danny Chivers find
hope in unexpected places.

You Shell not pass: First Nations
activist and singer Audrey Siegl confronts the oil giant’s drilling rig
on its way to the Arctic.
© Emily Hunter / Greenpeace