by Institute for Global Dialogue
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“Governments have been thinking about these issues of how climate change interacts with security for a while. But this may heighten the attention to it,” said Francesco Femia, co-founder and director of the Center for Climate & Security in Washington.
Negotiators from nearly 200 nations are still set to meet in Paris Nov. 30 for the launch of the United Nations-sponsored COP21 conference. French and U.N. officials confirmed this week the event would proceed as planned at Le Bourget, an exhibition center in the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis where two suicide attacks and a bombing took place Friday night, killing three people. More than 132 people have died and hundreds are wounded after a series of coordinated attacks linked to the Islamic State group.
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