Emmanuel Macron: Ten years after the Paris Agreement, let's redouble our efforts

France has made a clear choice to put ecology at the heart of all its economic, planning, energy, agricultural and industrial policies, writes President of France, Emmanuel Macron

France will play its full part in the struggle for our climate and our planet, guided by respect for science, industrial ambition, progress, solidarity, and the exemplary leadership of Europe.

It has been 10 years since the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), where 195 states made a historic commitment to work together to keep the long-term rise in global temperatures well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to no more than 1.5°C. 

France played its full part in making this great moment of co-operation and universal solidarity a success. A decade later, we can be proud of how far we have come.