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Obama and other leaders due in Paris for major climate change conference

By Jethro Mullen, CNN
Updated 1058 GMT (1858 HKT) November 29, 2015
Security concerns in Paris ahead of climate summit
Security concerns in Paris ahead of climate summit 02:51

Story highlights

  • U.S. and Chinese Presidents set to meet Monday morning
  • Big climate march that was planned for Sunday is banned after terror attacks
(CNN)It's a potentially historic event being held in extraordinary circumstances.
Nearly 150 world leaders are expected to descend on Paris for the start of the U.N. climate change summit that starts Monday in the French capital with the aim of reaching a landmark global deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
The leaders of the United States, China and India -- the world's top three carbon-emitting countries -- are among those scheduled to attend the opening day of the event, known as COP21.
Montana's Grinnell Glacier, a robust body of ice decades ago, is melting.
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Mount Everest's East Rongbuk Glacier lost some 350 vertical feet of ice between August 1921 (above) and October 2008 (next).
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Mount Everest's East Rongbuk Glacier lost some 350 vertical feet of ice between August 1921 (previous) and October 2008 (above).
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Columbia Glacier in Alaska has retreated 11 miles since 1980. Since then, it has diminished vertically an amount equal to the height of New York's Empire State Building.
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Columbia Glacier in 2012.
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The November 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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A single summer stole more than 200 feet (60 meters) of ice from the snout of Sólheimajökull, a glacier in Iceland, seen in April 2006.
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What a difference a few months made for Sólheimajökull, seen from the same vantage in October 2006. The glacier has withdrawn a third of a mile (0.5 kilometer) over the past decade, in step with rising temperatures.
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Years ago, says a veteran skier, "conditions were fantastic" at the world's highest ski area, on 17,250-foot (5,260 meters) Chacaltaya Glacier near La Paz, Bolivia.
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Today, few attempt the ski run down Bolivia's Chacaltaya Glacier, even after a snowfall. The glacier has shriveled in the past decade, turning much of the slope into a boulder field.
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As icons such as Montana's once well-formed Grinnell Glacier vanish, "people feel a sense of loss," says Dan Fagre of the USGS.
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Montana's Grinnell Glacier, a robust body of ice decades ago, is melting.
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
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Mount Everest's East Rongbuk Glacier lost some 350 vertical feet of ice between August 1921 (above) and October 2008 (next).
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
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Mount Everest's East Rongbuk Glacier lost some 350 vertical feet of ice between August 1921 (previous) and October 2008 (above).
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
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Columbia Glacier in Alaska has retreated 11 miles since 1980. Since then, it has diminished vertically an amount equal to the height of New York's Empire State Building.
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
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Columbia Glacier in 2012.
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
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The November 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine.
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
11 of 11
A single summer stole more than 200 feet (60 meters) of ice from the snout of Sólheimajökull, a glacier in Iceland, seen in April 2006.
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
1 of 11
What a difference a few months made for Sólheimajökull, seen from the same vantage in October 2006. The glacier has withdrawn a third of a mile (0.5 kilometer) over the past decade, in step with rising temperatures.
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
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Years ago, says a veteran skier, "conditions were fantastic" at the world's highest ski area, on 17,250-foot (5,260 meters) Chacaltaya Glacier near La Paz, Bolivia.
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
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Today, few attempt the ski run down Bolivia's Chacaltaya Glacier, even after a snowfall. The glacier has shriveled in the past decade, turning much of the slope into a boulder field.
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
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As icons such as Montana's once well-formed Grinnell Glacier vanish, "people feel a sense of loss," says Dan Fagre of the USGS.
11 photos: Climate change is real
Show Caption
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Montana's Grinnell Glacier, a robust body of ice decades ago, is melting.
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It's being held amid heavy securityafter the deadly terrorist attacks that struck Paris two weeks ago. French authorities have clamped down on public demonstrations in the aftermath of the attacks, blocking environmental campaigners' plans for a big march on Sunday in Paris to highlight the climate change issue.
Refusing to be muted, some activists covered the city's Place de la Republique with shoes to symbolize the steps that marchers were being prevented from taking.
    Since authorities prohibited protests at the COP21 in Paris out of security concerns, activists laid out shoes where demonstrators may have stood.
    Since authorities prohibited protests at the COP21 in Paris out of security concerns, activists laid out shoes where demonstrators may have stood.
    Demonstrators marched in other cities around the globe.
    Opinion: Climate change is a form of terror

    Obama to meet Chinese President

    French President Francois Hollande is meeting with several world leaders Sunday ahead of the start of the two-week conference, including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
    China looks to make progress with climate change
    China looks to make progress with climate change 02:32
    U.S. President Barack Obama is due to arrive in Paris late Sunday and meet with Xi the following morning.
    "Clearly, U.S. cooperation with China is absolutely essential to successful efforts to combat climate change," White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said in a briefing last week. "I think the two leaders meeting at the beginning of this process, as the two largest emitters, sends a strong message to the world about their shared commitment to combat climate change and to achieve an ambitious agreement."
    More than 40,000 delegates from 195 countries are attending COP21, which has the goal of achieving a legally binding agreement to keep global warming below what most scientists say is the critical threshold of 2 degrees Celsius of warming.
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