It has been 10 years since the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, known as 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 preindustrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. 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 percent compared with 1990, including 20 percent between 2017 and 2024. We went from a reduction of less than 1 percent per year before 2017 to annual reductions of more than 2 percent on average from 2017 to 2021 — and more than 4 percent on average between 2022 and 2024. Our goal is a 50 percent reduction by 2030, which means 270 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere every year.

These results are France’s coll

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