LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The latest news related to the U.N. climate conference in Paris, which runs through Dec. 11. All times local:
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The Paris climate talks have a new visitor: a two-story-high, mechanically operated polar bear.
Activists from Greenpeace rolled the bear into the conference venue Wednesday morning. It’s among many scattered protest actions around the two weeks of talks.
“We want the bear to represent everyone hoping in the next 72 hours” for a robust climate deal, said Greenpeace’s Ben Stewart. The talks are scheduled to wrap up Friday night.
The same bear protested in front of the headquarters of Royal Dutch Shell as part of campaigns against oil drilling in the Arctic.
Activists are trying to call attention to melting glaciers, rising sea levels and other results of man-made emissions that contribute to global warming.
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