PM to attend One Planet Summit in Paris today

Prime Minister JuhaSipilä will attend the One Planet Summit in Paris on Tuesday and is also scheduled to attend the European Council in Brussels on 14–15 December, said a government press release.

The Prime minister will hold a bilateral meeting with his Estonian counterpart Jüri Ratas before the summit in Paris.

The international One Planet Summit in Paris, organised as part of the Climate Finance Day 2017, gathers together Heads of State and Government from a hundred countries.

The summit is organised to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Its aim is to get more funding and new projects for combating climate change.

Finland's contribution is a climate fund, which Finland founded together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in October.

The climate fund will support renewable and clean energy solutions and climate projects in developing countries. Sipilä’s delegation will also include Minister of the Environment Kimmo Tiilikainen.

The European Council on 14 December has on its agenda defence and social issues, education and culture. On 15 December, the European Council, in a EU27 format, will review the latest developments in the Brexit negotiations, and the Euro Summit will discuss the economic and monetary union (EMU) and banking union.