NATCHEZ — A little more than two weeks after terrorists killed 130 in a series of attacks, Natchez Mayor Butch Brown will join leaders from around the world in Paris for a global climate change conference.

Brown was selected by the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative to attend COP21 in Paris and is scheduled to leave Wednesday.

COP21 is the United Nations climate change conference aimed at achieving a new international agreement on the climate, applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

Despite the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, the conference will go forward, with leaders including President Barack Obama saying attacks by the Islamic State would not derail the climate talks.

“What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children,” Obama said Tuesday in a joint press conference with French President Francois Hollande.

Brown said he has been briefed nearly daily regarding security at the conference.

Brown said he will travel through multiple security checkpoints throughout the city, as well as designated zones not open to public. Brown is also scheduled to attend a meeting at the Stade de France. Three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the stadium during an international soccer game as part of the attacks.

“I’m not frightened to go,” he said. “I will be more aware and alert than before, but it’s the most secure place in the world today.”

Brown will also give a presentation at the conference on behalf of the MRCTI, a coalition of mayors along the river aimed at creating a unified voice for the Mississippi River.

The primary issue MRCTI aims to discuss at the conference is the preservation of Mississippi River watershed food production and the impact climate change has on food production on river plains.

Climate change is believed to be responsible for increased natural disasters, including droughts and floods.

With an increasing global population and billions of dollars of agricultural products produced for the world in the Mississippi River basin every year, climate change is a significant threat for the Mississippi River, Brown said.

“If we don’t change the way we produce food … in terms of reducing carbon levels and those types of things … we’re not going to be able to sustain food production for the world,” he said.

Brown said he also plans to attend presentation related to the various aspects of sustainability and health living at the conference.

While in Paris, Brown is also scheduled to attend a dinner with other delegates with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and a dinner and reception with the French ambassador.

Brown also hopes to meet with the ambassador while in France to discuss French participation in the Natchez Tricentennial next year.

Vidalia Mayor Hyram Copeland, who was originally scheduled to attend, but decided not to because of projects that came up in Vidalia, spokeswoman Sheri Rabb said.

Significant progress on climate change is of the utmost importance, Brown said, because of the implications climate change has on the future.

“My grandsons … they will be a part of all this, the future that climate change will affect,” he said.