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This illustration made in Paris on November 8, 2015 shows a figurine with a globe next to a miniature shopping cart. France will chair and host the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11), from 30 November to 11 December 2015. French President Francois Hollande on November 12, 2015 stood by the need for a "binding" agreement at an upcoming world climate summit starting in Paris at the end of the month. Hollande touched on the nature of the accord after US Secretary of State John Kerry pointed out that the proposed deal would not include greenhouse-gas curbs backed by tough legal provisions of the kind agreed in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. "If there is not a binding accord, there will not be an accord," Hollande said at an EU-Africa summit in Malta after being asked about Kerry's remarks. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET / AFP PHOTO / Joël SAGET (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)