First we want a binding agreement, but we want a deal which is valid for the whole century, we do not want the Paris agreement with commitments ending in 2030 because the Paris agreement cannot be an agreement that starts in 2020 or 2021 and finishes in 2030, like the Kyoto Protocol, which finishes in 2020.

Arias Canete

We have confidence in all countries to deliver on what they promised. The EU will continue to lead by example and enshrine its targets into law.

For sure we would like to have had more and aviation and maritime are a clear case. We were fighting for it until the last moment.

If that doesn't happen, if there is no movement, then we will be in the middle of a very big problem.

The EU will fight for a very ambitious deal. When you have 196 parties, the easy way out is to agree a minimalistic agreement, we will work day and night to have an ambitious agreement that is fit for purpose.

We will have a deal in Paris. Of that, I have no doubt.

And those things must be in the operational core part of the agreement, not otherwise. If we have an agreement of that nature, it will be valid, it will be an instrument and then we'll have to refine it over time, if we just say these are the INDCs on the table and in 2030 we convey another conference to say what we are going to do, it is not valid.

If it is just an agreement which finishes in 2030, (and) lacks ambition, it does not solve the problem of the actual gap that we have already seen when we have analyzed the INDCs of 150 countries.