France – Addressing the Challenge of Climate Change

Press conference given by Nicolas Sarkozy after the Copenhagen summit. “Europe will propose the creation of a European Environment Organization which will have two responsibilities: monitoring each country’s environmental commitments and the honouring of the financial commitments vis-à-vis the poorest countries.”

France and Ethiopia, representing Africa, launch an appeal to all Parties to the Convention on Climate Change to adopt an ambitious agreement limiting the increase of temperatures to 2°C above preindustrial levels, and ensuring that vulnerable countries will receive adequate financing to face the challenge.

Copenhagen summit objectives – Joint statement by Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Republic, and Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. “We agreed to work for an ambitious deal in Copenhagen, to which all parties contribute, and which enables the EU to reduce its emissions by 30% by 2020.”

President Sarkozy had a meeting today at the Elysée to discuss the Copenhagen conference with the main French non-governmental organizations and leading figures engaged in the fight against climate change. Communiqué issued by the Presidency of the Republic.

France welcomes India’s announcement that it will reduce the carbon intensity of its economy by 20-25% compared with 2005 levels by 2020.