French President Emmanuel Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday called for stronger action in the fight against climate change, as he hosted world leaders for talks two years to the day since the Paris agreement.

"We are very far from the goal of the Paris agreement of limiting the rise in temperatures to below a two-degree threshold," he told Le Monde newspaper. 

"Without much stronger mobilisation, a jolt to our means of production and development, we will not succeed," he warned.