Climate talks can’t fail as there is no alternative planet, says French minister

At the opening session of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin on 18 May 2015, France's foreign minister Laurent Fabius warned that the international community had no option but to combat climate change as there is 'no alternative planet'.

The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is a informal session of talks which was launched by German chancellor Angela Merkel in 2010, to prepare for the United Nations climate change conference held in Paris in December 2015.

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