French ambassador: France to host 21st UN conference on climate change

France will organize and preside the 21st United Nations conference on climate change in December, French Ambassador to Romania Francois Saint-Paul announced on Thursday, opening a seminar on energy efficiency in Bucharest.

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The main goal of the conference was to reach a new, ambitious international agreement, applicable to all countries, to keep the global warming below two degrees Celsius by 2030, the ambassador revealed.

He mentioned that such commitments were difficult for the European Union countries; the targets were set in the energy and climate package adopted by the EU in October 2014: reducing the greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent, increasing the proportion of renewable energy to 27 percent of the energy mix and reducing the energy intensity by 27 percent. AGERPRES