国内英语新闻:Climate Summit in Paris to catch world’s attention

By Ling Dequan, Researcher, Center for World Affairs Studies, Xinhua News Agency

BEIJING, Nov. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- As 2015 is drawing to an end, Paris will once again become the focal point of the "global village." From Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, the 21st meeting of "the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" (Global Climate Change Conference) will be held here.

On November 23, "Earth Crisis", a huge ball, eight meters in diameter, weighing 2.3 tons and with a surface area of 200 square meters, was suspended 60 meters above the ground floor of the Eiffel Tower.