Ministers, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am most grateful to you for sparing your very precious time to be here for this meeting today on Forests and Climate Change, exactly a month before COP21 begins in Paris.In addition to complimenting Minister Ségolène Royal for her and her Governm

Minister Pulgar-Vidal,Minister Fabius,Madame Figueres,Your Excellencies,Ladies and Gentlemen,I am enormously touched to have been invited by President Hollande to say a very few words at the start of this crucially important Conference. May I just begin by expressing my profound horror at what happe