Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has used an interview with an influential BBC current affairs show in London to issue his most pungent retort yet to his Canadian detractors.
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In Paris, Trudeau will talk with French President Francois Hollande before attending the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP 21).
The new funding amounts to a doubling of Canada’s so-called “fast-start climate financing” for developing nations and comes just days before the United Nations climate change conference starts in Paris on November 30.
Trudeau said: “I am thrilled to have expressed Canada’s commitment to further fostering the unique relationship we share with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as our Sovereign, and I look forward to Her Majesty’s participation at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta”.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is announcing today that Canada will be making a 2.65-billion-dollar contribution to help developing countries tackle climate change.
More than $10 billion United States was pledged to the Green Climate Fund in 2014 by developed nations, including the $300 million from Canada.
Many of these same world leaders will soon make their way to Paris for negotiations on the next worldwide agreement to take effect after 2020.
Signatories to a Paris agreement should agree to update their climate change goals every five years, she added. “In 2005 they were anticipating it. Now it’s a reality”. We are committed to acting in accordance with science, promoting de-carbonization, supporting climate change efforts in developing countries, and enabling future prosperity through a sustainable national and global economy. On that front, Mulcair says Trudeau is failing. “Canadians who voted for change are going to be disappointed with that”.
“What’s most important for Canada…is that we continue to be a strong player within the coalition against ISIL… also in terms of military engagement”, Trudeau said.
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“I don’t think anyone thinks it would be helpful that we throw a number on the table and then not have the ability to deliver on that”.
