Speaking at the European Council summit, the French President claimed that it would be inconsistent for the EU to allow countries who have not signed up to the Paris climate agreement to trade freely with the bloc.
Emmanuel Macron added that the EU should instead spread the “European rule-based model” around the world.
He said: “We have to be consistent. Let’s not get into a weak position.
“Let not the European Union always be respectful of rules but let others get away with not supporting the rules elsewhere.
“We have to show leadership on the climate and also with our trade policy, and I’m certainly in favour of having an ambitious trade policy, but it must be consistent with our climate objectives as indeed with our social objectives.
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“And it has to be a means not of progressively being marginalised in the world’s most fragmented authoritarian powers.
“Rather, we should be the ones who are spreading the European model which is rule-based, a model that we have constructed over decades.
“That is a model which must clearly integrate today our interest and the common welfare of the planet.”
Last year, President Donald Trump refused to sign the US up to the Paris Accord climate change agreement.
During a press conference earlier this month, President Trump delivered a fiery dig at the Brussels club insisting they made it almost “impossible” for the US to do business with them.
The European Union retaliated to the rhetoric and has said if Mr Trump carries out his threat to introduce a 25 percent duty on steel and 10 percent on aluminium.
European Council President Donald Tusk told the US President “to act responsibly” and warned that “trade wars are easy to lose”.
Mr Tusk added he was “cautiously optimistic” the EU would avoid the 25 percent steel and 10 percent duties on aluminium, but was still waiting for a response from Washington.