PARIS ¨C 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 degrees Celsius 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 cooperation and universal solidarity a success. A decade later, we can be proud of how far we have come.
In France, we have reduced our greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% compared with 1990, including 20% between 2017 and 2024. We went from a reduction of less than 1% per year before 2017 to annual reductions of more than 2% on average from 2017 to 2021 ¡ª and more than 4% on average between 2022 and 2024. Our goal is a 50% reduction by 2030, which means 270 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere every year.
These results are France¡¯s collective achievement ¡ª the success of our unique approach to ecology, which combines progress and protection, and enables us to reduce both emissions and unemployment at the same time. We never impose a rule without providing an accessible alternative. We refuse to sacrifice our competitiveness. We aim to combine sovereignty, employment and decarbonization.
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