Joint Declaration between the People's Republic of China and the French Republic on Cooperation in Addressing Global Climate and Environmental Challenges

Both countries welcome Brazil's efforts as the host country of the thirty-third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as well as the commitments made by all parties in Belm, including new nationally determined contributions, while striving to do better through collective collaboration. Both countries reiterate the temperature control objectives of the Paris Agreement, namely to limit the increase in global average temperature to below 2C above pre-industrial levels, and to strive to limit the temperature increase to below 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would greatly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change. Both countries reaffirm their commitment to jointly create a favorable and open international economic system. Both countries continue to strengthen cooperation in accelerating the global deployment of renewable energy, including making continuous contributions to global efforts to transition the energy system away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner, and actively promoting green, low-carbon economic and social transformation. Both countries continue to enhance communication in the areas of carbon pricing, climate finance, methane, carbon footprint methodology, and adaptation. Both countries recognize the importance of controlling and reducing methane emissions, especially by mobilizing existing technologies and innovative solutions. Both countries support tripling global nuclear power capacity by 2050. Both countries support the implementation of the International Maritime Organization's ship greenhouse gas emission reduction strategy by 2023, to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the industry by around 2050.