{President Kagame and President of EU Commission José Manuel Barroso signed the sustainable energy declaration on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Summit.}
Other African countries who signed an energy cooperation agreement with Europe are Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Togo and Rwanda.
The objective of this agreement is to improve access to sustainable energy and allow all people, even the most rural, to take advantage of this renewable resource.
The Union also wants to develop this type of program to all developing countries.
On Tuesday a United Nations summit on climate change agreed to widen the use of renewable energy and raise billions of dollars in aid for developing countries in an effort to increase the prospects for a wide-ranging deal to slow global warming.
The one-day summit, hosted by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, set goals to halt losses of tropical forests by 2030, improve food production and hike the share of electric vehicles in cities to 30 percent of new vehicle sales by 2030.
The summit was attended by world leaders including President Paul Kagame of Rwanda.
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