Cape Town #ClimateMarch Photos – There is No Planet B!

In preparation for the Paris climate change conference -which begins Monday 30 November – people around the world joined the Global Climate March this weekend to set out climate-related demands before the summit begins.

JUSTIN SULLIVAN from Sullivan Photography captured the photos on this page during today’s #ClimateMarch in Cape Town.

Check out some of the fantastic signs that say it all…

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has already arrived in Paris, accompanied by Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa, for the summit.

Officially the summit is called the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) of the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC).

The South African president will attend the Heads of State and Government segment on 30 November.

The Presidency said South Africa has a special interest in ensuring the success of #COP21 since it was in Durban at COP 17, in 2011, that negotiations were launched which will conclude this year.

President Zuma said: “To be successful, the new agreement must be fair. Fairness would imply respect for the convention’s principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.”

South Africa also has the special responsibility of advancing the collective and shared interests of developing countries in the negotiations for the Paris Agreement – countries which need support “to make the transition to a low carbon economy and to adapt to the reality of a climate that is already changing and the loss and damage that is associated with this,” said the Presidency.

South Africa chairs the Group of 77 and China. It is also an active member of the Africa Group of Negotiators (AGN) as well as the Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) Group.

President Zuma said finance will be of central importance to the Paris outcome and has to be an integral part of the agreement itself.

“The reality is that without adequate, predictable and sustainable means of implementation, it will be impossible to reach our agreed temperature target.

“This is because key mitigation potential is in developing countries, such as South Africa, and these countries are not able to realise this potential on their own,” he said.

The conference will run through to 11 December 2015.

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