Guardian: French authorities are enforcing unprecedented restrictions on civil society at the UN climate change talks in Paris, the author and activist Naomi Klein has said.
Klein said the ongoing talks were a victim of austerity as the French government had failed to provide adequate state funding, leading to heavy sponsorship by corporations. Meanwhile authorities have imposed a ban on mass protests around COP21, as the conference is known, in the wake of last months terror attacks in Paris.
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