Trudeau visited the Bataclan concert hall to pay silent tribute to the victims of the Islamic State’s coordinated attacks in Paris.
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She also said that Canada’s record on fighting climate change really “belongs to the provinces” and the individual efforts they’ve been making over the years.
While 40,000 delegates were in Paris Sunday for the conference, a few hundred were in attendance at Queen’s Park for a protest, where they demanded that the world leaders sign a binding deal to stop global warming and climate change.
Trudeau, in turn, responded that “we will make sure that we all play a role in order to curb this terrorist threat”.
“Everyone is waiting to see what “New Canada” will do”.
The conference center where more than 140 nations will be meeting for two weeks began to bustle Sunday as lower-level negotiators arrived, and U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres expressed optimism about the outcome.
Among the few things concluded at the flop 2009 Copenhagen global climate change summit were those things agreed beforehand by the Commonwealth. On Friday, for example, he pledged $2.65-billion to aid developing countries in adopting emissions-reductions measures. “So we’re very pleased to be part of this worldwide initiative”.
Stewart Elgie, a law professor and director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Ottawa, said one of the biggest challenges will be figuring out who takes on the biggest – and the smallest – burden when it comes to meeting national targets.
“My hope is that when I go home, I’ll be able to put our initiatives in the context of this broader, urgent project”. Ontario is also collaborating with California and Canada’s French-speaking province of Quebec to develop a cap-and-trade system that sets a limit on the amount of pollution industry can produce and a mechanism by which companies over their quota can buy carbon credits from those that don’t use all of theirs.
Clark said B.C. has successfully implemented a carbon tax that has allowed the economy to grow while emissions are reduced across the province.
He has said he will meet premiers within 90 days to negotiate that plan – but at Monday’s press conference he repeatedly dodged questions about when it will be completed.
The Liberals committed to spending $300 million annually on two clean technology innovation funds during the October election that propelled them to a majority government; the Paris pledge simply reaffirms that promise.
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The prime minister said the government has already started putting elements of a national plan in place, including the plan for a low-carbon energy trust and pledging $20 billion in green infrastructure over the next decade. In addition to engaging with leaders during the summit, NRDC and key partners will be highlighting the need for greater climate action and promoting solutions for both city resilience and clean energy development at the key events listed below.
