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Oxfam (a confederation of 15 organizations working together to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice) activists stage a protest aimed at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, on Nov. 27. Inspired by the Occupy Wall St. movement, protesters calling for "climate justice" are set to gather on Nov. 28 at the opening of UN climate talks in Durban, organizers say.

Climate talks to begin in South Africa on Monday

AP reports:

Amid fresh warnings of climate-related disasters in the future, delegates from about 190 countries were gathering in Durban for a two-week conference beginning Monday. They hope to break deadlocks on how to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.

Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. climate secretariat, said Sunday the stakes for the negotiations are high, underscored by new scientific studies.

Under discussion was "nothing short of the most compelling energy, industrial, behavioral revolution that humanity has ever seen," she said.

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