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.”

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.

Communiqué issued by the Presidency of the Republic after the announcement by President Obama to attend the Copenhagen Summit on December 18.

United Nations Summit on Climate Change in New York. Speech by Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Republic, September 22 2009. “We are today on the path to failure if we go on as we are. We need proposals, action, and people to take responsibility.”