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PM Narendra Modi arrives in Paris around two hours from now to address world conference on climate change

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today left for Paris to attend the world conference on climate change beginning tomorrow.Mr Modi will be joining about 150 heads of state and governments at the summit to set agenda for the conference. The aim of the climate change summit is to reach a landmark global deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The Prime Minister will address the summit in the plenary conference hall "Seine" on Monday at the leaders event.<br/> <br/>AIR correspondent reports from Paris that the summit will discuss the issue of low carbon emission by the developed and the developing countries to avoid catastrophic and irreversible impact on weather including drought, heat waves, fiercer storms and sea level rise. The summit expects a universal legal agreement by developed and developing countries by the end of the discussion. One of the contentious issues in the conference is the availability of carbon space till 2100 which can be utilized by both the emerging and developed economies. <br/> <br/>Early opening of negotiations to<br/>inalize the draft agreement is to begin later tonight. For this purpose a special body was created in Durban, South Africa, in 2011 for negotiations on the universal climate agreement that's supposed to be adopted in Paris. <br/><br/>The climate summit is being organized in Le Bourget on the outskirts of Paris amidst tight and elaborate security in the backdrop of deadly 13/11 terror attacks on Paris in which 130 people were killed.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, thousands of protesters joined hands near the heart of the Paris terror attacks demanding world leaders try to save Earth from a climate catastrophe.<br/>The human chain aimed to send a highly symbolic message to leaders on the eve of the official opening of the 195-nation UN climate summit.

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