The Paris Agreement signed during the UN Climate Change Conference in 2015 is of epoch-making significance and still impressive. This is a turning point and a great historical progress for the whole world. In the process of global response to climate change, the Paris Agreement unites all countries in the world for substantive global cooperation.
This forum (in Taiyuan) is an important platform for people from all sides to speak freely and exchange experiences to fulfill relevant commitments under the Paris Agreement. I wish this forum a complete success, and I also believe that it will be a fruitful conference with full exchange of experience and information.
-- Jiri Paroubek, former prime minister of the Czech Republic