By — Andrew Mach Andrew Mach Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-expect-from-the-cop21-climate-talks-in-paris Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter What to expect from the COP21 climate talks in Paris World Nov 29, 2015 4:49 PM EDT On the eve of a major climate conference in Paris, thousands of demonstrators gathered along the route of a protest march that had been banned by the government in a security crackdown following the Nov. 13 terror attacks on the French capital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnyOg_QMk7Q Even as world leaders, in a “very hopeful moment,” descend upon the city in hopes of reaching an agreement to halt climate change, the main variable setting apart the 2015 Paris Climate Conference are the realities of global security, according to Charles Sennott, the founder and executive director of the GroundTruth Project. “I think people should know this is an amazing crossroads of narratives between terrorism and the attempt to cause a lot of fear and division,” Sennott told PBS NewsHour’s Hari Sreenivasan in a Google Hangout on Sunday. “I really hope we’ll now see the world and the world shift to this optic on climate change and focus in on as I say what could become a very historic agreement,” he said. Watch the Google Hangout with Hari Sreenivasan and GroundTruth Project’s Charles Sennott, Manon Verchot and Justin Calma, in the video above. By — Andrew Mach Andrew Mach Andrew Mach is a former Digital Editor for PBS NewsHour in New York City, where he manages the online editorial direction of the national broadcast's weekend edition. Formerly, Mach was a news editor and staff writer for NBC News. He's also written for the Christian Science Monitor in Boston and had stints at ABC News, the Washington Post and German network ZDF in Berlin, in addition to reporting for an investigative journalism project in Phoenix. Mach was a recipient of the 2016 Kiplinger Fellowship, the 2015 RIAS German/American Exchange fellowship by the Radio Television Digital News Foundation and the 2012 Berlin Capital Program Fulbright. He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is a native of Aberdeen, South Dakota. @andrewjmach
On the eve of a major climate conference in Paris, thousands of demonstrators gathered along the route of a protest march that had been banned by the government in a security crackdown following the Nov. 13 terror attacks on the French capital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnyOg_QMk7Q Even as world leaders, in a “very hopeful moment,” descend upon the city in hopes of reaching an agreement to halt climate change, the main variable setting apart the 2015 Paris Climate Conference are the realities of global security, according to Charles Sennott, the founder and executive director of the GroundTruth Project. “I think people should know this is an amazing crossroads of narratives between terrorism and the attempt to cause a lot of fear and division,” Sennott told PBS NewsHour’s Hari Sreenivasan in a Google Hangout on Sunday. “I really hope we’ll now see the world and the world shift to this optic on climate change and focus in on as I say what could become a very historic agreement,” he said. Watch the Google Hangout with Hari Sreenivasan and GroundTruth Project’s Charles Sennott, Manon Verchot and Justin Calma, in the video above.