He also noted that “The issue of Climate Change should not be hijacked by the occurrences during the last few weeks”.
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Before lunching with Hollande at the French presidential palace, the recently elected Canadian prime minister visited the sites of the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris.
“As someone who attends these climate conferences, these are tough negotiations”.
“Prime Minister Trudeau has not yet explained how withdrawing Canada’s CF18s from the air combat mission will help our coalition partners defeat ISIS”.
US Secretary of State John Kerry recently hinted that India would be put under pressure to commit more, particularly on curbing its coal use, by calling the South Asian country a “biggest challenge” in the Paris talks.
He also observed there may be persons who never leave the country, but who may share these risky views, and who may be encouraged to take action against us..
He said shared values helped participants triumph over their differences and make the conference the resounding success it was.
This global partnership, announced during the first day of the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21), seeks to double government investment over the next five years in clean energy research and development, and to spur private sector investment in clean technology.
“Essentially what is at stake with this climate conference is peace”, said the French president.
But “there were reservations expressed…by one country” over parts of three paragraphs in the agreement, the statement said.
The support given by the Prime Minister and other Commonwealth leaders was embodied in the final communique issued by the Commonwealth leaders upon the conclusion of the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta yesterday. Trudeau said he and Hollande also discussed cooperation between France and Quebec to prevent the radicalization of young people. I look forward to working together with President Hollande to deepen our bilateral relationship.
Earlier Monday, Trudeau reiterated some of Canada’s emission targets, but how they will be achieved hasn’t yet been nailed down.
“Every single one of us can and should be much more conscious of the ways we can act to reduce our carbon footprint”.
It was the last of Trudeau’s frenetic networking, which included sitting down with the presidents of the European Union and European Commission, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – where he accepted an invitation to visit Israel – and a brief address to an event hosted by the World Bank.
ZAMBIA is to benefit from the 5 million British pounds to be made available by the British Government to help countries build capacity to counter extremism and terrorism taking hold around the country.
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Because its membership includes industrialised G7 powers like Britain and Canada, emerging giants like India and tiny island microstates such as the Maldives, agreement in the Commonwealth has historically boded well for deals being struck beyond its bounds.
