Xi remarked during a news conference in Beijing, in the presence of visiting French President Francois Hollande: “We would like to make joint efforts with France to make the climate change summit successful”.
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French President in Korea: French President Francois Hollande tries on three-dimensional glasses during a visit to D.CAMP, an organization helping start-up companies, in Seoul, Wednesday.
The communication artwork of the campaign specially chosen for China will seek to reflect the boundless future and potential for innovation and creativity between our two countries, showcasing creative French talent in the areas of green technology, aerospace, cuisine, healthcare, and new technologies. “Cop21 is also about not having fear of exchanging technology”.
For better understanding of both cultures, the two sides agreed to expand transmissions of TV programs produced by state-funded broadcasting stations and list Korean language as a second-language subject for French students applying for college admissions. Higher education diplomas will be mutually recognized between the two countries, and the education ministries signed an arrangement to this end.
Hollande also expressed his support for Park’s major North Korea policies including trustpolitik and Eurasia Initiative and also vowed to join global efforts to press North Korea to improve human rights condition. “It would not affect our sovereignty”, Hollande said in Beijing.
South Korea has been an active advocate of green growth as the host country of the Green Climate Fund ― a global fund mechanism to finance developing countries’ adaptation to climate change.
Jointly held by the China France Committee and China’s National Development and Reform Commission, more than 600 participants from around 200 Chinese and French enterprises gathered at the forum to exchange views on cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the energy, transportation, recycling and IT sectors.
Li’s comments come ahead of a forthcoming UN climate summit in Paris, which will seek to unite all the world’s nations in a single agreement on tackling climate change. France and China have agreed that a global climate change pact should require countries to review their emission pledges every five years.
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“The richest countries must do their part”, Hollande said in Seoul after a round-table discussion on climate at a South Korean University, without specifically referring to the USA “Sometimes those who talk the most do the least”.
