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Introducing a report on Monday’s CBS This Morning about the climate change conference being held in Paris, co-host Norah O’Donnell worried that “security concerns threaten to overshadow the talks.” Correspondent Margaret Brennan followed: “The world's two biggest polluters, China and the U.S., kicked off the climate change summit....The goal in Paris is to limit global warming to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit from pre-industrial levels, but the terror threat is diverting attention.”
Moments later, Brennan lamented environmental protests being prevented due to new security measures in Paris: “Riot police have been deployed in unprecedented numbers. On Sunday, 174 protesters were arrested for defying the government's ban on demonstrations....Environmentalists silently protested the ban on their march, leaving their shoes in the square they had hoped to walk through.”