Climate: Francois Hollande launched the Call of Manila

"If there is a warming continues in coming decades, it is the coming war. This is not only the disaster, it's a catastrophe that will make war and war that will further amplify the disaster. "

The fight against global warming is the focus of a visit of Francois Hollande in the Philippines, the first by a French head of state since independence from the archipelago. The president is stepping up efforts to ten months of the Paris Conference, where he hopes an ambitious climate agreement. The opposite, he believes, would have catastrophic consequences. '' If there is a warming continues in coming decades, it is the coming war. It's not only the disaster, it's a catastrophe that will make war, and the war that will further strengthen the disaster. ''

Through this trip to the Philippines, France appears alongside the most vulnerable nations in global warming. François Hollande campaigning for international financial support to developing countries. A fight greeted by Philippine President Benigno Aquino: "The Philippines, as a developing country, thank countries like France, which is one of the spearheads of a global partnership to solve this problem. ''

Besides ministers, celebrities accompanied Francois Hollande in the Philippines, including Marion Cotillard and actresses Melanie Laurent. Dampen spirits, it is the goal of '' the call of Manila '' in the final straight before the Paris Conference.

The French president will travel this Friday on the island of Guiuan in order to see the damage caused in 2013 by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most devastating in recent decades with more than 7,300 dead and thousands homeless. The archipelago is regularly affected by storms, violence has increased in recent years.