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French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie (L,) Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo (C), and Prime Minister Francois Fillon (R) listen to France's President Nicolas Sarkozy deliver his speech following an Overseas Departments and Territorial Administration cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris November 6, 2009. Reuters Pictures 2 weeks ago

French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie (L,) Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo (C), and Prime Minister Francois Fillon (R) listen to France's President Nicolas Sarkozy deliver his speech following an Overseas Departments and Territorial Administration cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris November 6, 2009.

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  1. PARIS - NOVEMBER 11: In this handout provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with French President Nicholas Sarkozy on November 11, 2009 in Paris, France. Netanyahu was invited to visit France by Sarkozy on his return from his trip to America.
  2. PARIS - NOVEMBER 11: In this handout provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with French President Nicholas Sarkozy on November 11, 2009 in Paris, France. Netanyahu was invited to visit France by Sarkozy on his return from his trip to America.
  3. A member of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, writes on a board the 2008 French President Nicolas Sarkozy' promises as the workers prepare a symbolic meeting with the president. In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  4. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, answer to journalists as they wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, preparing a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  5. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, answer to journalists as they wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, preparing a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  6. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, answer to journalits wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, preparing a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  7. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy where they prepare a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  8. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the factory where they prepare a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider.
  9. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, answer to journalits wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the factory where they prepare a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider.
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  11. Captain of the French schooner 'La Boudeuse' explorer Patrice Franceschi (L) welcomes French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo (L) on October 14, 2009 at the Musee de la Marine in Paris, prior to his departure for a two-year scientific expedition entitled 'Terre Ocean' (Earth Ocean) from South America to Pacific Ocean, directed by Borloo as part of the 'Grenelle de l'Environnement', a governemental commitment on environmental measures signed on December 2007. 2ndL is the president of French Explorers, Olivier Archambeau.
  12. Captain of the French schooner 'La Boudeuse' explorer Patrice Franceschi (L) welcomes French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo (L) on October 14, 2009 at the Musee de la Marine in Paris, prior to his departure for a two-year scientific expedition entitled 'Terre Ocean' (Earth Ocean) from South America to Pacific Ocean, directed by Borloo as part of the 'Grenelle de l'Environnement', a governemental commitment on environmental measures signed on December 2007. 2ndL is the president of French Explorers, Olivier Archambeau.
  13. Captain of the French schooner 'La Boudeuse' explorer Patrice Franceschi (C) speaks with French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo (L) on October 14, 2009 at the Musee de la Marine in Paris, prior to his departure for a two-year scientific expedition entitled 'Terre Ocean' (Earth Ocean) from South America to Pacific Ocean, directed by Borloo as part of the 'Grenelle de l'Environnement', a governemental commitment on environmental measures signed on December 2007. 2ndL is the president of French Explorers, Olivier Archambeau.
  14. French Ecology minister Jean-Louis Borloo (L) and Foreign Affairs minister Bernard Kouchner attend a press conference given prior to a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on November 14, 2009 at the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris. Lula arrived in Europe on November 14 to attend a UN food agency meeting in Rome and discuss climate change and military jets in Paris, to boost Brazil's air force's capabilities of patrolling the Amazon and offshore oil fields.
  15. French Ecology minister Jean-Louis Borloo arrive to attend a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on November 14, 2009 at the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris. Lula arrived in Europe on November 14 to attend a UN food agency meeting in Rome and discuss climate change and military jets in Paris, to boost Brazil's air force's capabilities of patrolling the Amazon and offshore oil fields.
  16. French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) gives a press conference in front of his Ecology minister Jean-Louis Borloo prior to a meeting with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on November 14, 2009 at the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris. Lula arrived in Europe on November 14 to attend a UN food agency meeting in Rome and discuss climate change and military jets in Paris, to boost Brazil's air force's capabilities of patrolling the Amazon and offshore oil fields.
  17. (From L) French Industry minister Christian Estrosi, Transports state secretary Dominique Bussereau, Ecology, Energy and Sustainable Development and Climate Negotiations State Minister Jean-Louis Borloo and France's Health, Youth, Sport and Associations minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin attend the weekly session of the questions to the government, on November 10, 2009 at the French National Assembly in Paris.
  18. French Ecology, Energy and Sustainable Development and Climate Negotiations State Minister Jean-Louis Borloo (R) and French Transports state secretary Dominique Bussereau attend the weekly session of the questions to the government, on November 10, 2009 at the French National Assembly in Paris.

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  1. U.N. Climate chief Yvo de Boer addresses the media during an EU Environment Ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels, Monday Nov. 23, 2009.
  2. U.N. Climate chief Yvo de Boer addresses the media during an EU Environment Ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels, Monday Nov. 23, 2009.
  3. U.N. Climate chief Yvo de Boer gestures as he addresses the media during an EU Environment Ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels, Monday Nov. 23, 2009.
  4. Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren addresses the media during an EU Environment Ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels, Monday Nov. 23, 2009. Carlgren said on Monday the European Union (EU) was "still pushing" developed countries to adopt a broad interim accord at next month's climate conference in Copenhagen.
  5. British Farm and Environment Minister Jim Fitzpatrick reviews documents on November 20, 2009 before an EU Agriculture Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.
  6. Spanish Environment Minister Elena Espinosa arrives on November 20, 2009 for an EU Agriculture Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.
  7. Philippine boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao (2L) joins hands with his wife Jinkee (2R) and Environment Secretary Lito Atienza (L) with former governor Chavit Singson (R) during mass in the Quiapo district of Manila on November 20, 2009, after he returned with a historic seventh career boxing title in as many divisions. The Philippines rolled out the red carpet in a rock star reception on November 20 for pound-for-pound king and newly crowned World Boxing Organisation welterweight champion Pacquiao. Earlier this week, Pacquiao brushed off rumours his marriage was in trouble amid reports he flew a starlet to Las Vegas to watch him win.
  8. Filipino boxing great Manny Pacquiao, third from left, attends a thanksgiving mass with his wife Jinky, fourth from left, at Manila's Quiapo Church Friday Nov. 20, 2009 in Manila, Philippines. Pacquiao made history in world boxing for winning seven world titles in seven weight divisions after defeating Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico in their WBO welterweight fight Nov. 14. Others in photo are Environment Secretary Lito Atienza, second left, and former Governor Luis "Chavit" Singson.
  9. Filipino boxing great Manny Pacquiao, second from left, attends a thanksgiving mass with his wife Jinky, third from left, at Manila's Quiapo Church Friday Nov.20, 2009 in Manila, Philippines. Pacquiao made history in world boxing for winning seven world titles in seven weight divisions after defeating Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico in their WBO welterweight fight Nov. 14. Others in photo are Environment Secretary Lito Atienza, left, and former Governor Luis "Chavit" Singson.
  10. SAN FRANCISCO - NOVEMBER 18: A Costco customer looks at a display of LCD HDTV televisions November 18, 2009 in San Francisco, California. The California Energy Commission voted unanimously to require all new televisions over 58 inches to be more energy efficient beginning in 2011. California became the first state in the nation to impose such stricts regulations in an effort to conserve energy and protect the environment.
  11. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  12. As environment ministers filed into their afternoon press conference, climate activists held banners and demanded the rich countries to pay their climate debt outside the Tycho Brahe Planetarium, in Copenhagen, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.
  13. As environment ministers filed into their afternoon press conference, climate activists held banners and demanded the rich countries to pay their climate debt outside the Tycho Brahe Planetarium, in Copenhagen, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.
  14. Host of the Pre-COP conference, Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard, left, and Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC hold a press conference at the Tycho Brahe Planetarium, in Copenhagen, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Environment ministers from around the world are meeting in Copenhagen (16-17 November) to set the agenda for the UN climate talks in December.
  15. Host of the Pre-COP conference, Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard, left, and Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC hold a press conference at the Tycho Brahe Planetarium, in Copenhagen, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Environment ministers from around the world are meeting in Copenhagen (16-17 November) to set the agenda for the UN climate talks in December.
  16. In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, a pall of smoke rises from a major blaze at a chemical factory that recycles used chemicals and oil, in Bellville, South Africa. South Africa has strict laws to protect the environment, and joins other countries in the ongoing global warming debate, although the effect of fires like this one are largely uncalculated.
  17. Indonesian activists dressed in orangutan costumes attend an anti-deforestation and illegal orang utan hunting campaign in Jakarta on November 17, 2009. There are about 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia's Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak. A 2007 assessment by the United Nations Environment Program warned the charismatic red-haired apes will be virtually eliminated in the wild within two decades if current deforestation trends continue.
  18. Indonesian activists dressed in orangutan costumes attend an anti-deforestation and illegal orang utan hunting campaign in Jakarta on November 17, 2009. There are about 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia's Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak. A 2007 assessment by the United Nations Environment Program warned the charismatic red-haired apes will be virtually eliminated in the wild within two decades if current deforestation trends continue.

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  2. Brazil's players listen to the national anthem during an award ceremony of the men's volleyball World Grand Champions Cup after winning the gold medals in Nagoya, central Japan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
  3. U.S. Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne, left, Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, speaks as Afghan Counternarcotics Minister Gen. Khudaidad, center, and Helmand Gov. Mohammad Gulab Mangal listen during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. The U.S. announced Monday that it is giving US$38.7 million to 27 Afghan provinces that either reduced poppy cultivation by more than 10 percent or became poppy free this year.
  4. A Nihang, or a Sikh warrior, walks bare foot on a road scattered with rose petals through which a religious procession passed on the eve of the death anniversary of the ninth Sikh Guru, Tegh Bahadur, in Golden Temple, Sikh's holiest shrine in Amritsar, India, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
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  8. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 23: Max Mirnyi of Belarus plays with Andy Ram of Israel during the men's doubles first round match against Bob Bryan of USA and Mike Bryan of USA during the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena on November 23, 2009 in London, England.
  9. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 23: Max Mirnyi of Belarus plays with Andy Ram of Israel during the men's doubles first round match against Bob Bryan of USA and Mike Bryan of USA during the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena on November 23, 2009 in London, England.
  10. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 23: Max Mirnyi of Belarus plays with Andy Ram of Israel during the men's doubles first round match against Bob Bryan of USA and Mike Bryan of USA during the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena on November 23, 2009 in London, England.
  11. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 23: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech to the CBI annual conference at the Park Lane Hilton hotel on November 23, 2009 in London, England. The Confederation of British Industry's conference, entitled 'Routes to Recovery', brings together leading politicians and business experts to discuss ways to deliver economic growth.
  12. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 23: Max Mirnyi of Belarus plays with Andy Ram of Israel during the men's doubles first round match against Bob Bryan of USA and Mike Bryan of USA during the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena on November 23, 2009 in London, England.
  13. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 23: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech to the CBI annual conference at the Park Lane Hilton hotel on November 23, 2009 in London, England. The Confederation of British Industry's conference, entitled 'Routes to Recovery', brings together leading politicians and business experts to discuss ways to deliver economic growth.
  14. A child covers her head from the cold with an oversized coat at a slum in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
  15. Brazil's players celebrate during an award ceremony of the men's volleyball World Grand Champions Cup after winning the gold medals in Nagoya, central Japan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
  16. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 23: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech to the CBI annual conference at the Park Lane Hilton hotel on November 23, 2009 in London, England. The Confederation of British Industry's conference, entitled 'Routes to Recovery', brings together leading politicians and business experts to discuss ways to deliver economic growth.
  17. Brazil's Leandro Vissotto Neves, left, and Theo Lopes kiss the trophy during an award ceremony of the men's volleyball World Grand Champions Cup after winning the gold medals in Nagoya, central Japan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
  18. A child uses her sweater to cover her head from the cold at a slum in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.