FEELING THE HEAT

摘要

The Paris terror attacks have cast an eerie mood on the UN Climate Change Summit, being held in the same venue - the Stade de France - as one of those hit by armed Islamic militants just three weeks ago. Some of the fringe events around the conference and parts of the first ever Buildings Day - which took place last week - have had to be curtailed in the service of the heightened security clearly required for such a high level meeting of heads of state, so soon after the attacks. Nevertheless, hopes remain robust that the summit, which comes to a climax today, will still be able to choreograph the kind of global climate chaftge treaty that has remained so elusive since the historic Kyoto Protocol was adopted nearly 20 years ago - albeit it is likely to be without the binding legal safeguards.