US EditionLaurent Fabius, Former French Foreign Minister, on the Tenth Anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement
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Ten years after the historic signing of the Paris Agreement, France has come out in defence of its validity and effectiveness, at a time when doubts about its ability to curb climate change grow. The French Government maintains that, despite the challenges and partial non-compliances of some countries, the Agreement has succeeded in consolidating an unprecedented global framework, which has promoted more ambitious climate policies and placed the…
Laurent Fabius, former French Foreign Minister, on the tenth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, efforts have been made to try to crack down on the spiral that threatened to warm up to +4°C. But climate disruption is manifesting itself in extreme events that are becoming more and more frequent, in France, where municipalities see their future in concrete terms threatened.
Elysée had announced that he would take over the festivities of the climate pact. Finally, it was the minister of ecological transition who took charge of it, in a more sober version.
No special celebration is planned at Elysée and Matignon to mark the ten years of this historic climate agreement. This questions, in view of the ecological ambitions displayed by Emmanuel Macron.
On December 12, 2015, it marked a milestone in the history of the fight against global warming. That day, at 7:30 p.m., Laurent Fabius, president of the 21st International Climate Summit in Paris (COP21), sealed with a green-leaf hammer the first global treaty for climate action. By signing the Paris Agreement, nearly two hundred countries pledged to contain warming “very below 2 °C” and to continue the action “to limit the rise of temperature t…
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