The fights against terrorism and global warming are closely linked, French President Francois Hollande said on Monday as world leaders met in Paris for climate change talks two weeks after deadly Islamist militant attacks in France's capital. 


More than 150 world leaders arrived at United Nations climate change talks in Paris armed with promises and accompanied by high expectations as they look to hold back the Earth's rising temperature. 


Hollande reiterated that a deal to try to keep any further increase in global temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius needed to be "universal, differentiated and binding", with richer countries contributing more than poorer ones. 


"I can't separate the fight with terrorism from the fight against global warming," he said at the opening of the talks. 


"These are two big global challenges we have to face up to, because we have to leave our children more than a world freed of terror, we also owe them a planet protected from catastrophes

Source: NNA