He is also accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, Laurent Fabius, Minister of State for Development and Francophony, Annick Girardin, and Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Ségolène Royal. France’s Special Envoy for the Protection of the Planet, Nicolas Hulot, who was in the country last January.
With Hollande are UN Climate Change exec Christiana Figueres, Orthodox Chuch's Patriarch Bartholomew I, Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and French actress Melanie Laurent.