Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the two-week conference in Paris, France, also known as the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The highly-anticipated meeting, opened by leaders from over 150 countries, aims to yield a new international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases beyond 2020 when the 1997 Kyoto Protocol expires.

President Xi Jinping first expressed his sincere sympathy to French people on the recent Paris terrorism attack, which killed 130 innocent people at night of November 13, 2015. “Terrorism cannot hold back efforts to address climate change,” said Xi.

When speaking about climate change issues, Xi said developed countries should honor commitment of $100 billion climate fund annually by 2020, and provide stronger financial support to developing countries afterwards.

The Paris agreement should reject narrow-minded zero-sum game. “We should create a future of the rule of law, fairness, and justice,” added Xi.

Countries, at the same time, should be allowed to seek solutions that best suit their respective economic conditions, Xi said.

China has been actively engaged in a global campaign on climate change. China now tops the world in terms of energy conservation and utilization of new and renewable energies, and ecological development will feature prominently in China’s Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, according to the President.

China will strive to fulfill the commitment to peak CO2 emission by around 2030, and by 2030 reduce CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 60 to 65 percent over the 2005 level, Xi said.

The country is to raise share of none-fossil fuel to primary energy consumption by about 20 percent, and increase forest stock by around 4.5 billion cubic meters over 2005, Xi said.

This September, China announced the establishment of RMB 20 billion South-South Climate Fund. Next year, China will launch cooperation projects to set up 10 pilot low-carbon industrial parks, and start 100 mitigation and adaptation projects in developing countries, Xi announced.

China is to provide these developing countries with 1000 training opportunities for tackling climate change, Xi Jinping said.

“Tackling climate change is a shared mission of all mankind,” Xi said.